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CAR DROPPER

Specialty Definition: CAR DROPPER

DomainDefinition

Mining

See:car runner. (references)

Occupations

Controls movement of railroad or mine cars to position cars for loading or unloading at sidings, loading chutes, tipples, or scales, performing any combination of following tasks: Pushes or rides cars down slope. Guides and stops cars by switching, applying brakes, or placing scotches (wooden wedges) between wheel and rail. Uncouples and positions railroad car under loading chutes by inserting pinch bar under car wheels, using bar as fulcrum and lever to move car. Hooks cable to car and controls cable drum brake to ease car down incline. Opens and closes bottom doors of cars to dump contents. May assist in cleaning and preparing cars for loading. (references)

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

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Anagrams: CAR DROPPER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-o-p-p-r-r-r"

-3 letters: corrade, crapped, crapper, cropped, cropper, dropper, eardrop, procarp.

-4 letters: adorer, capped, capper, carder, carped, carper, copped, copper, coppra, corder, craped, dapper, dorper, draper, parred, proper, rapped, rapper, record, redcap, roared, roarer.

-5 letters: acred, adore, arced, ardor, cadre, caped, caper, cared, carer, cedar, coder, coped, coper, copra, cored, corer, crape, credo, crore, darer, decor.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CAR DROPPER


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

43 41 52      44 52 4F 50 50 45 52

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

    

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

01000011 01000001 01010010 00100000 01000100 01010010 01001111 01010000 01010000 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#82 &#32 &#68 &#82 &#79 &#80 &#80 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0052      0044 0052 004F 0050 0050 0045 0052

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

373552238524950503952

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
3. Bibliography


  

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