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PILOT WEDGE

Specialty Definition: PILOT WEDGE

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Mining

A half-cylinder member, about 5 in (12.7 cm) long, coupled to the lower end of a Hall-Rowe deflection wedge, by means of which the deflection wedge may be oriented in a specific manner in reference to a matching half-cylinder surface on the upper end of the wedge (drive wedge). This is driven into the wooden plug placed about 8 ft (2.4 m) below the point in a borehole where a deflection is to be made. Also called wedge pilot. (references)

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

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Anagrams: PILOT WEDGE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-i-l-o-p-t-w"

-2 letters: lepidote, petioled.

-3 letters: epidote, petiole, pigweed, piloted, pledget, toweled.

-4 letters: diglot, diploe, dipole, elegit, eloped, epilog, etoile, glowed, godwit, peewit, pelite, pelted, piglet, piolet, pledge, plowed, podite, polite, toiled, wedgie, welted, widget, wiglet, wilted.

-5 letters: depot, dogie, dowel, dowie, dwelt, edile, elide, elite, elope, epode, gelid, geode, geoid, glede, gleed, gleet, glide, godet, ledge.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PILOT WEDGE


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

50 49 4C 4F 54      57 45 44 47 45

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

    

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

01010000 01001001 01001100 01001111 01010100 00100000 01010111 01000101 01000100 01000111 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#73 &#76 &#79 &#84 &#32 &#87 &#69 &#68 &#71 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0049 004C 004F 0054      0057 0045 0044 0047 0045

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

504346495425739384139

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