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Definition: Sod House |
Sod HouseNoun1. A house built of sod or adobe laid in horizontal courses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Sod HouseSynonyms: adobe house (n), soddy (n). (additional references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Sod House Remains on Tundra. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. |  | St. Makarius, Amchitka Island Sod House Remains. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. |
 | Yukon Delta Sod House Remains. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. |  | [A ward in a sod house hospital, Harbin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Details of the construction of a sod house roof]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [A sod house, Harbin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [The front of a sod house hospital, Harbin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Sod house. Box Butte County, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sod house built as memorial to pioneers of Box Butte County, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Convict camp - 10 men in front of sod house. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
the sod house | 34 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sod house"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Manx | thie foaid. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | odsay ousehay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Rattus rattus, RM:ratto nero. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-o-o-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: douses, housed, houses, shooed, soused. | |
-3 letters: doses, douse, hoods, hosed, hoses, house, oohed, sheds, shoed, shoes, shoos, souse. | |
-4 letters: does, dose, doss, dues, duos, edhs, hods, hoed, hoes, hood, hose, hued, hues, odes, ohed, oohs, oses, ouds, shed, shes, shod, shoe, shoo, sods, sous, suds, sued, sues, udos, used, uses. | |
-5 letters: doe, dos, due. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-o-o-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: doghouses, squooshed. | |
+2 letters: dollhouses, households, roadhouses. | |
+3 letters: roundhouses, undershoots. | |
+4 letters: householders, pseudomorphs. | |
+5 letters: southernwoods. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 64 48 6F 75 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01100100 00100000 01001000 01101111 01110101 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o d   H o u s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0064 0048 006F 0075 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53817024281878571 |
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