Hackbut

  

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Hackbut

Definition: Hackbut

Hackbut

Noun

1. An obsolete firearm with a long barrel.

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

Synonyms: Hackbut

Synonyms: arquebus (n), hagbut (n), harquebus (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Hackbut

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Arms

Small arms; musket, musketry, firelock, fowling piece, rifle, fusil, caliver, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss, arquebus, haguebut; pistol, postolet; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet, escopette, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut, shooter, shooting iron , six-shooter, shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, KalashnikoVerb:

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: Hackbut

"Hackbut" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hackbut" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hackbut

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

Bulgarian 

  

аркебуз (arquebus). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szakállas ágyú. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ackbuthay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

prostituir-se. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

аркебуза (arquebus, harquebus). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Hackbut

Derivations

Words beginning with "hackbut": hackbuts. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Hackbut" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hackbuts. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Hackbut

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-h-k-t-u"

-1 letter: chabuk.

-2 letters: batch, butch, thack.

-3 letters: abut, bach, back, baht, bath, bhut, buck, chat, chub, habu, hack, haut, huck, khat, tabu, tach, tack, tuba, tuck.

-4 letters: act, auk, bah, bat, but, cab, cat, cub, cut, hat, hub, hut, kab, kat, tab, tau, tub, uta.

-5 letters: ab, ah, at, ba, ha, ka, ta, uh, ut.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-h-k-t-u"
 

+1 letter: hackbuts.

 

+2 letters: buckwheat, thumbtack, touchback.

 

+3 letters: buckwheats, thumbtacks, touchbacks.

 

+4 letters: thumbtacked.

 

+5 letters: thumbtacking.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Hackbut


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

48 61 63 6B 62 75 74

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)

....    .-    -.-.    -.-    -...    ..-    -

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

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

01001000 01100001 01100011 01101011 01100010 01110101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#99 &#107 &#98 &#117 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 0063 006B 0062 0075 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

42676977688786

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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