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GUTTER LANE

Specialty Definition: GUTTER LANE

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Gutter Lane (London). A corruption of Guthurun Lane, from a Mr. Guthurun, Goderoune, or Guthrum, who, as Stow informs us, "possessed the chief property therein." (See Guthrum.)
All goes down Gutter Lane. He spends everything on his stomach. The play is between Gutter Lane, London, and guttur (the throat), preserved in our word guttural (a throat letter). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

GUTTER LANE. The throat, the swallow, the red lane. See RED LANE. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Anagrams: GUTTER LANE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-l-n-r-t-t-u"

-2 letters: gauntlet, regental, regulate, tutelage.

-3 letters: elegant, enlarge, enteral, entreat, eternal, euglena, gantlet, gaunter, general, gentler, gleaner, grantee, granule, greaten, gruntle, grutten, guttler, languet, leaguer, lunette, negater, nettler, neutral, ratteen, reagent, tangler, taunter, tegular, teleran, tentage, ternate, turgent, tutelar, uneager.

-4 letters: angler, antler, argent, attune, eaglet, elater, eluant, eluate, eluent, englut, enrage, entera, ergate.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-l-n-r-t-t-u"
 

+3 letters: unforgettable.

 

+4 letters: ultraenergetic.

 

+5 letters: argumentatively, ultracentrifuge.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GUTTER LANE


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

47 55 54 54 45 52      4C 41 4E 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01010101 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010 00100000 01001100 01000001 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#85 &#84 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#32 &#76 &#65 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0055 0054 0054 0045 0052      004C 0041 004E 0045

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

415554543952246354839

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