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Definitions: Pelter |
PelterNoun1. A heavy rain. 2. A thrower of missiles; "the police were too busy to chase the pelters". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | A worker employed in a coal mine to take down pelt (shaly stone) from the roof of a narrow seam, to make enough height for a coal cutting machine. (references) |
Occupations | Skins small fur-bearing animals, such as foxes, weasels, mink, and muskrats, for their pelts, using skinning knife. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: PelterSynonyms: cloudburst (n), deluge (n), downpour (n), soaker (n), torrent (n), waterspout (n). (additional references) |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "pelter" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pelter | Last name | 170 | 42,543 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pelter | 8 |
effect pelter sebec | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pelter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | Λιθοβολητήσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elterpay ploaie torenţialã (downfall, downpour, drench, drencher, shower, torrent). (various references) ринуться проливной дождь/;вспышка гнева;скакун. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pelter": peltered, peltering, pelters. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pelter": spelter. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pelter": spelters. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: petrel. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-l-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: leper, peter, relet, repel. | |
-2 letters: leer, leet, lept, peel, peer, pele, pelt, pert, pree, reel, rete, teel, tele, tree. | |
-3 letters: eel, ere, lee, let, pee, per, pet, ree, rep, ret, tee, tel. | |
-4 letters: el, er, et, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-l-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: pelters, perlite, petrale, petrels, peytrel, pleater, prelate, prelect, pretzel, replate, replete, reptile, respelt, spelter, telpher. | |
+2 letters: drupelet, epistler, expertly, paltered, palterer, pearlite, peltered, peltries, perlites, petrales, petronel, peytrels, pleaters, praelect, preelect, prelates, prelects, pretzels, pterylae, replated, replates, reptiles, spelters, teleport, telphers. | |
+3 letters: completer, drupelets, epistlers, epistoler, eruptible, expletory, exploiter, interlope, interpled, metroplex, overleapt, overslept, palestrae, palterers, pearliest, pearlites, peltering, percolate, perfectly, peristyle, perpetual, petroleum, petronels, philtered, pistoleer, plastered, plasterer, polyester, poulterer, praelects, prebattle, preelects, prelature, prelected, preselect, presently, pretravel, prevalent, princelet, proselyte, repellant, repellent, replanted, replaster, repletion, replicate, replotted, reputable, reputedly, saltpeter, sepulture, telegraph, teleports, telphered, terpineol, triplexes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 6C 74 65 72 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .-.. - . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01101100 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e l t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 006C 0074 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)507178867184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Names: Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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