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Thumbhole

Definitions: Thumbhole

Thumbhole

Noun

1. The hole in a woodwind that is closed and opened with the thumb.

2. A finger hole made to fit the thumb (as in a bowling ball).

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


Frequency of Internet Keywords: Thumbhole

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  stock thumbhole

10

  sks stock thumbhole

6

  rifle stock thumbhole

4

  10 22 stock thumbhole

3

  gun stock thumbhole

3

  10 22 ruger stock thumbhole

2
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Derivations: Thumbhole

Derivations

Words beginning with "thumbhole": thumbholes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Thumbhole

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-h-h-l-m-o-t-u"

-3 letters: humble, tumble.

-4 letters: bluet, blume, botel, boule, buteo, butle, helot, hotel, mohel, motel, moult, mouth, oleum, thole, thumb, umbel.

-5 letters: belt, beth, bhut, blet, blot, blue, bole, bolt, both, bout, buhl, bute, helm, helo, heth, hole, holm, holt, home, lobe, loth, lout, lube, lute, melt, meou, meth, mole, molt, mote, moth, moue, mule.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-h-h-l-m-o-t-u"
 

+1 letter: thumbholes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Thumbhole


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

54 68 75 6D 62 68 6F 6C 65

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "thumbhole"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "thumbhole"

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