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WEDGE ROCK

Specialty Definition: WEDGE ROCK

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Mining

An expression used on the Comstock lode to designate rock better than waste but too poor to be classed as "pay ore" or even "second-class ore." It became a custom to throw a wooden wedge onto a car containing very lowgrade ore, hence the term wedge rock. Syn:pin. (references)

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

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Anagrams: WEDGE ROCK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-g-k-o-r-w"

-1 letter: rockweed.

-2 letters: cowered, wrecked.

-3 letters: codger, corked, crewed, crowed, decker, docker, gecked, recked, recode, redock, rewoke, rocked, worked.

-4 letters: ceder, cered, coder, coked, cored, cowed, cower, credo, creed, creek, crowd, decor, dower, dreck, edger, erode, gecko, geode, gored, greed, greek, kedge, ocker, rewed, rowed, wedge, wodge, wreck.

-5 letters: cede, cere, cero, code, coed, coke, cord.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WEDGE ROCK


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

57 45 44 47 45      52 4F 43 4B

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

    

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

01010111 01000101 01000100 01000111 01000101 00100000 01010010 01001111 01000011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#69 &#68 &#71 &#69 &#32 &#82 &#79 &#67 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0045 0044 0047 0045      0052 004F 0043 004B

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

5739384139252493745

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2. Orthography
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