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SMALLER END

Specialty Definition: SMALLER END

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Food & Agriculture

Of any piece of round timber having noticeable taper, the end with the smaller cross-section, i. e. nearly always the upper, younger end. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: SMALLER END

Specialty definitions using "SMALLER END": plug cock. (references)

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Use in Literature: SMALLER END

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Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Whereupon the Emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: SMALLER END

Language Translations for "SMALLER END"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

den tynde ende (small end). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

topstuk (small end), topeinde (small end), top (agreed, okay, peak, point, summit, surface, tip, top), dunne eind (small end). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

latvapää (small end). (various references)

   

French

  

petit bout (small end), fin bout (small end). (various references)

   

German

  

Zopfende (small end). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λεπτή άκρη (small end). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sezione minore (small end), punta (bit, Cape, drill, end, headland, jag, lace, peak, pinch, point, prick, prong, Spike, spire, summit, tang, tip, toe, top, touch). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allersmay enday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

topo (butt, cap, roof, stub, summit, tip, top, vertex). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

punta (beak, bodkin, end, extremity, head, hustler, jag, nib, peak, pen nib, Pike, point, Spike, summit, tip, toe), extremo delgado (small end). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

toppända (small end). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SMALLER END

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-l-l-m-n-r-s"

-2 letters: aldermen, amenders, dalesmen, demersal, emeralds, landlers, leadsmen, mandrels, meanders.

-3 letters: allseed, almners, amender, damners, darnels, dealers, demeans, emerald, enamels, endears, ladlers, landers, landler, leaders, leadmen, leaners, learned, lenders, mallees, mandrel, meander, meaners, measled, medlars, melders, menders, reedman, relends, remands, remends, renamed, renames, seedman, slander, slender, smaller, smeared, smelled, smeller, snarled, snelled, sneller.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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