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SCREWFEED

Specialty Definition: SCREWFEED

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Mining

A system of gears, ratchets, and friction devices, or some combination of these parts, in the swivel head of a diamond drill, which controls the rate at which a bit is made to penetrate the rock formation being drilled. When controlled by a feed gear, the bit maintains the same penetration rate per revolution regardless of drill-stem revolutions per minute. Alsocalled gear feed, mechanical feed. (references)

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

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Anagrams: SCREWFEED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-f-r-s-w"

-2 letters: decrees, feeders, recedes, refeeds, resewed, screwed, seceder, sewered, weeders.

-3 letters: ceders, creeds, creese, crewed, decree, defers, feeder, recede, reefed, refeed, reseed, reweds, screed, secede, seeder, weeder.

-4 letters: ceder, cedes, cered, ceres, creed, crews, deers, defer, drees, ewers, feces, feeds, feres, fewer, freed, frees, redes, reeds, reefs, refed, resee, resew, rewed, scree, screw, seder.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SCREWFEED


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

53 43 52 45 57 46 45 45 44

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)

01010011 01000011 01010010 01000101 01010111 01000110 01000101 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#67 &#82 &#69 &#87 &#70 &#69 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0043 0052 0045 0057 0046 0045 0045 0044

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

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

533752395740393938

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