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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Throws track switches within yard of railroad, industrial plant, quarry, construction project, or similar location to switch cars for loading, unloading, making up, and breaking up of trains: Receives oral or written instructions from CONDUCTOR, YARD (r.r. trans.), YARD COUPLER (r.r. trans.) or YARD MANAGER (r.r. trans.). Observes arm or lantern signal from YARD COUPLER (r.r. trans.) and relays information to HOSTLER (r.r. trans.) or throws track switch to facilitate shunting of cars to different locations in yard. May couple and uncouple cars for makeup and breakup of trains. May ride atop cars that have been shunted and turn handwheel to control speed of car or stop it at specified position. May wave arm or lantern to signal YARD ENGINEER (r.r. trans.) to start or stop engine. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SWITCH TENDER |
| Specialty definitions using "SWITCH TENDER": CONDUCTOR, YARD ♦ engine supervisor ♦ head switcher ♦ YARD ENGINEER, yard supervisor. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-h-i-n-r-s-t-t-w" | |
-2 letters: christened, restitched. | |
-3 letters: chertiest, chittered, dehiscent, directest, entwisted, intersect, retwisted, richweeds, stenchier, stretched, stridence, swineherd, swithered, thirteens, trendiest, trisected, twitchers, whiteners. | |
-4 letters: centrist, chedites, chestier, chewiest, chitters, christen, citherns, cithrens, citterns, desertic, diethers, dinettes, discreet, discrete, ditchers, drenches, enriched, enriches, enthetic, enticers, esthetic, heretics, inserted, insetted, insetter, interest, nerdiest, reshined, resident, restitch, reticent. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-h-i-n-r-s-t-t-w" | |
+4 letters: creditworthiness. | |
| 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)53 57 49 54 43 48      54 45 4E 44 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010111 01001001 01010100 01000011 01001000 00100000 01010100 01000101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S W I T C H   T E N D E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0057 0049 0054 0043 0048      0054 0045 004E 0044 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5357435437422543948383952 |
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