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STEAM BLOCKER

Specialty Definition: STEAM BLOCKER

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Occupations

Saturates felt cones in water and tends machine that stretches felt cones to form hat shapes: Places felt cones in container of hot water or on racks in steam cabinet to condition cones. Removes conditioned cone from water or cabinet and pulls cone onto hat block. Positions hat block on holding device in bed of machine. Presses levers to close machine claws that grasp rim of cone and pull rim outward to form brim. Starts ram that forces block upward into cone to shape crown. Presses lever or depresses pedal to spray water and force air through cone, or pours water over cone to stiffen cone. Releases levers and removes hat from machine. Places hats on wheeled racks. May be designated according to type of hat blocked as Wool-Hat Blocker (hat & cap). (references)

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

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Anagrams: STEAM BLOCKER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-k-l-m-o-r-s-t"

-2 letters: blastomere, bracteoles, latecomers.

-3 letters: beclamors, bracelets, bracteole, brocatels, combaters, corelates, elastomer, keelboats, latecomer, mackerels, relocates, retackles, salometer, smokeable, telemarks, temblores.

-4 letters: abelmosk, acerbest, arbelest, armlocks, atremble, backmost, backrest, beclamor, becloaks, blackest, bleakest, bleaters, bloaters, blockers, bracelet, brackets, brocatel, brockets, bromates, cabestro, cabresto, cembalos, clambers, clearest, comakers, combater, corelate, corselet, cramboes, cremates, earlobes, earlocks.

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

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Alternative Orthography: STEAM BLOCKER


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

53 54 45 41 4D      42 4C 4F 43 4B 45 52

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

    

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

01010011 01010100 01000101 01000001 01001101 00100000 01000010 01001100 01001111 01000011 01001011 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#84 &#69 &#65 &#77 &#32 &#66 &#76 &#79 &#67 &#75 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0054 0045 0041 004D      0042 004C 004F 0043 004B 0045 0052

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

5354393547236464937453952

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