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Definition: LAWM |
LAWMNoun1. A very fine linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric with a rather open texture. Lawn is used for the sleeves of a bishop's official dress in the English Church, and, figuratively, stands for the office itself. |
Etymology: Lawm \Lawm\, noun. [Earlier laune lynen, i. e., lawn linen; probably from the town Laon in France.]. (Websters 1913) |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lawm mowers | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "LAWM": lawmaker, lawmakers, lawmaking, lawmakings, lawman, lawmen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "awm": shawm. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-m-w" | |
-1 letter: awl, lam, law, maw. | |
-2 letters: al, am, aw, la, ma. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-m-w" | |
+2 letters: lawman, lawmen, mallow, wadmal, wadmel, wadmol, wamble, wambly, warmly. | |
+3 letters: mallows, maxwell, plowman, sawmill, wadmaal, wadmals, wadmels, wadmoll, wadmols, wambled, wambles, wameful, wolfram, womanly, woolman. | |
+4 letters: clamworm, flatworm, lawmaker, laywoman, laywomen, leafworm, lukewarm, maxwells, mealworm, moldwarp, moonwalk, sawmills, wadmaals, wadmolls, wailsome, wamblier, wambling, wamefuls, whaleman, whalemen, wheelman, wolframs. | |
+5 letters: angleworm, awesomely, clampdown, clamworms, fellowman, flatworms, lawmakers, lawmaking, lawnmower, leafworms, limewater, mawkishly, mayflower, mealworms, meanwhile, meltwater, metalware, metalwork, milliwatt, moldwarps, moonwalks, multiwall, swampland, swimmable, unwomanly, wambliest, welfarism, wheelsman, whimsical, womanless, womanlier, womanlike, workmanly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 41 57 4D |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- .--. -- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000001 01010111 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L A W M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0041 0057 004D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46355747 |
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