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WASHBOARDING

Specialty Definition: WASHBOARDING

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

A more or less regular corrugation of the surface of timber, caused by differential shrinkage of early wood and late wood. Source: European Union. (references)

Industry

A flattening or buckling of the wood cells during seasoning, sometimes manifested in excessive and/or uneven shrinkage. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: WASHBOARDING

Language Translations for "WASHBOARDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

korrugering (corrugation, ribbing, rippling, washboard), kollaps (collapse), cellesammenbrud (collapse, crimp). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

geribd werk (ribbing), geribbeld werk (ribbing), collaps (collapse). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

luhistuminen (collapse, crimp), kollapsoituminen (collapse, crimp). (various references)

   

French

  

frisure, effondrement. (various references)

   

German

  

Welligwerden (ribbing), Waschbrettbildung (collapse, crimp), Kollaps (collapse). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ρίκνωσις (collapse, crimp). (various references)

   

Italian

  

corrugazioni (ribbing), collasso (breakdown, collapse, shock). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ashboardingway

   

Portuguese

  

fio levantado (raised grain, ribbing). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ondulado de contracción (ribbing), colapso (collapse, jam). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kollaps (collapse). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: WASHBOARDING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-g-h-i-n-o-r-s-w"

-3 letters: adsorbing, boardings, brainwash, dragonish, hairbands, hangbirds, hoardings, shadowing, signboard, washboard.

-4 letters: abashing, abrading, abrasion, awarding, bandoras, bargains, bighorns, birdsong, boarding, bodhrans, brandish, brigands, broadish, brownish, browsing, drawings, drowsing, hairband, handbags, hangbird, hoarding, inboards, orangish, rainbows, rainwash, showring, snowbird, songbird, swarding, windbags, wordings.

-5 letters: abasing, aboding, abrosia, adagios, adoring, agnosia, airbags, angoras, bagnios, bandogs.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-g-h-i-n-o-r-s-w"
 

+4 letters: weatherboardings.

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

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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