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Definition: Taffrail |
TaffrailNoun1. The railing around the stern of a ship. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "taffrail" was first used: 1814. (references) |
Etymology: Taffrail \Taff"rail\, noun. [from Dutch expression tafereel panel, picture, from tafel table, from the Latin expression tabula. See Table.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Transportation | Rail at the stern; strictly covers the head of the counter timbers. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Taffrail |
| English words defined with "taffrail": Quarter pieces ♦ Tafferer, taffrail log. (references) |
| "Taffrail" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Taffrail" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "taffrail": taffrail log. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see 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 |
taffrail | 3 |
log taffrail | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "taffrail"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | ограда на хакборда. (various references) | |
Dutch | spiegelboog. (various references) | |
French | couronnement. (various references) | |
German | Heckreling, Heckgeländer. (various references) | |
Greek | κορώνη τησ πρήμησ, πρυμιό ρέλι, περιτόναιο (peritoneum). (various references) | |
Indonesian | talenan (chopping block, cutting board). (various references) | |
Italian | coronamento (coping, crown, superstructure). (various references) | |
Manx | taffyl. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | affrailtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | grinalda (chaplet, coronal, coronet, crown, garland, puddening, streamer, wreath). (various references) | |
Russian | мор)гакаборт. (various references) | |
Spanish | coronamiento (bridging, completion, coping, crowning, top). (various references) | |
Swedish | akterreling. (various references) | |
Thai | ราวที่อยู่"้านท้ายเรือ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tabula. (various references) |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | tafereel. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "taffrail": taffrails. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "taffrail" (pronounced 'Taff"rail'): Breastrail, Pedrail, Tramrail. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-f-i-l-r-t" | |
-2 letters: affair, atrial, farfal, lariat, latria, raffia, taffia, tariff. | |
-3 letters: afrit, altar, artal, atria, fatal, filar, flair, flirt, frail, laari, ratal, riata, tafia, talar, tiara, trail, trial. | |
-4 letters: afar, airt, alar, alfa, alif, alit, aria, aril, fail, fair, farl, fart, fiar, fiat, fila, flat, flit, frat, frit, lair, lari, lati, liar, lift, lira, raff, raft, raia, rail, rial, riff, rift, tail, tala, tali, tiff, tirl. | |
-5 letters: aal, aff, aft, ail, air, ait, ala, alt, arf, art, far, fat, fil, fir, fit, iff, lar, lat, lit, rat, ria, rif, tar, til. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-f-f-i-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: taffrails. | |
+3 letters: trafficable. | |
+5 letters: affirmatively, affordability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 66 66 72 61 69 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- ..-. ..-. .-. .- .. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01100110 01100110 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a f f r a i l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0066 0066 0072 0061 0069 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5467727284677578 |
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