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Birchbark

Definition: Birchbark

Birchbark

Noun

1. A canoe made with the bark of a birch tree.

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

Date "birchbark" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Synonym: Birchbark

Synonym: birchbark canoe (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Birchbark

English words defined with "birchbark": birchbark canoe. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Birchbark

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Books

  • Algonquin Apprentice: Discovering the History & Legend of the Birchbark Canoe (reference)

  • Birchbark Belles (reference)

  • Birchbark Belles: Women on the Michigan Frontier (reference)

  • Birchbark Canoe: Living Among the Algonquin (reference)

  • Birchbark Canoe: The Story of an Apprenticeship With the Indians (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

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

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Image Slideshow: Birchbark

Illustrations:
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Expression: Birchbark

Expression using "birchbark": birchbark canoe. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Birchbark

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  birchbark

11

  birchbark canoe

8

  birchbark house

6

  basket birchbark

3

  birchbark book

2

  birchbark furniture

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Birchbark

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

German

  

Birkenrinde. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nyírfakéreg. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irchbarkbay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Birchbark

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-h-i-k-r-r"

-3 letters: bicarb.

-4 letters: baric, birch, brach, briar, brick, chair, chark, charr, chirk, chirr, rabbi, rabic.

-5 letters: abri, arch, bach, back, barb, bark, birk, birr, carb, cark, carr, char, chia, crab, crib, hack, haik, hair, hark, hick, kbar, rack, raki, rich, rick.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Birchbark


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

42 69 72 63 68 62 61 72 6B

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)

01000010 01101001 01110010 01100011 01101000 01100010 01100001 01110010 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#105 &#114 &#99 &#104 &#98 &#97 &#114 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0069 0072 0063 0068 0062 0061 0072 006B

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

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

367584697468678477

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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