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GURGOYLE

Definition: GURGOYLE

GURGOYLE

Noun

1. See Gargoyle.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GURGOYLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references)


Synonyms within Context: GURGOYLE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Conduit

Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: GURGOYLE

Specialty definitions using "GURGOYLE": Gargouille. (references)

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Anagrams: GURGOYLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-g-l-o-r-u-y"

-2 letters: eulogy, gouger, gurgle, logger, lugger.

-3 letters: erugo, glory, gluer, gluey, gorge, gouge, grego, gruel, gurge, leggy, loggy, loury, luger, ogler, rogue, rouge.

-4 letters: eggy, ergo, euro, gleg, gley, glue, glug, goer, gore, gory, grey, grog, grue, gyre, gyro, loge, logy, lore, lory, lour, luge, lure, lyre, ogle, ogre, orgy, orle, oyer, rely, role.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-g-l-o-r-u-y"
 

+2 letters: gorgeously.

 

+3 letters: egregiously.

 

+4 letters: gregariously.

 

+5 letters: encouragingly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GURGOYLE


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

47 55 52 47 4F 59 4C 45

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)

01000111 01010101 01010010 01000111 01001111 01011001 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#85 &#82 &#71 &#79 &#89 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0055 0052 0047 004F 0059 004C 0045

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

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

4155524149594639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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