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Definition: APPLE-PIE BED |
APPLE-PIE BED1. A bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. --Halliwell --Conybeare. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Apple-pie Bed A bed in which the sheets are so folded that a person cannot get his legs down; from the apple turnover; or, more probably, a corruption of "a nap-pe-pli bed." (French, nappe pliée, a folded sheet.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "APPLE-PIE BED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | hacer la petaca a uno (make smb. an apple-pie bed). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-e-i-l-p-p-p" | |
-3 letters: beleaped, dippable, pedipalp. | |
-4 letters: applied, bipedal, bleeped, blipped, piebald. | |
-5 letters: aedile, aliped, bailed, bailee, beadle, beeped, beleap, belied, dapple, edible, elapid, lapped, leaped, lipped, pealed, peeled, peeped, pepped, pipped, pleiad. | |
| 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)41 50 50 4C 45 2D 50 49 45 42 45 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01010000 01010000 01001100 01000101 00101101 01010000 01001001 01000101 00100000 01000010 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A P P L E - P I E   B E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0050 0050 004C 0045 002D 0050 0049 0045 0042 0045 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3550504639155043392363938 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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