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OVERWINDER

Specialty Definition: OVERWINDER

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Mining

One of the best known overwinder prevention devices consists of two vertical-screwed spindles, each carrying two traveling nuts and chain driven from the drum shaft so as to rotate in opposite directions. The nuts are prevented from rotating by projections engaging with a fixed plate and therefore travel up and down according to the movement of the cages. The upper nut takes care of overwinding and the lower nut ofoverspeeding. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: OVERWINDER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-n-o-r-r-v-w"

-1 letter: downriver.

-2 letters: ironweed, overdrew, override, overwide, overwind, redriven, rewinder, wonderer.

-3 letters: deriver, dernier, downier, drowner, endower, nerdier, nervier, onerier, overnew, redrive, redrove, reendow, rewiden, rewired, rewoven, rowdier, vernier, weirder, widener, wordier, worried.

-4 letters: denier, derive, devein, devoir, dewier, dinero, downer, driven, driver, droner, drover, endive, envied, envier, erenow, inwove, ironed, ironer, nereid, nerved, nevoid.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-n-o-r-r-v-w"
 

+2 letters: overwintered.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: OVERWINDER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 56 45 52 57 49 4E 44 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

---    ...-    .    .-.    .--.    ..    -.    -..    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01010111 01001001 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#87 &#73 &#78 &#68 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0056 0045 0052 0057 0049 004E 0044 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

49563952574348383952

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