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Tar-and-feather

Definition: Tar-and-feather

Tar-and-feather

Verb

1. Smear the body of (someone) with tar and feathers; done in some societies as punishment; "The thief was tarred and feathered".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Modern Translations: Tar-and-feather

Language Translations for "tar-and-feather"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

沥''羽毛. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

타르 그리 깃. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ar-and-feathertay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Tar-and-feather

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-e-e-f-h-n-r-r-t-t"

-3 letters: tetrahedra.

-4 letters: retardant, retardate.

-5 letters: adherent, anteater, antedate, attender, fathered, fattened, fattener, freehand, hardener, narrated, nattered, neatherd, raftered, rattened, rattener, reharden, rethread, threader, threated, threaten.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Tar-and-feather


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

54 61 72 2D 61 6E 64 2D 66 65 61 74 68 65 72

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

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

01010100 01100001 01110010 00101101 01100001 01101110 01100100 00101101 01100110 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#114 &#45 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#45 &#102 &#101 &#97 &#116 &#104 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 0072 002D 0061 006E 0064 002D 0066 0065 0061 0074 0068 0065 0072

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

546784156780701572716786747184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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