REEL BOY

  

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REEL BOY

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Mining

In bituminous coal mining, one who works on an electric locomotive--power being transmitted through an electric cable wound around a reel on the locomotive--tending the cable to see that it is wound up and fed from the reel so that it will not pull or break from the point where electriccurrent is supplied. Also called nipper. (references)

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

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Anagrams: REEL BOY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-l-o-r-y"

-1 letter: obeyer.

-2 letters: beery, beryl, leery, rebel, roble.

-3 letters: beer, bole, bore, bree, byre, byrl, eely, eery, eyer, eyre, leer, lobe, lore, lory, lyre, obey, orby, orle, oyer, reel, rely, robe, role, yore.

-4 letters: bee, bel, bey, boy, bro, bye, eel, ere, eye, lee, ley, lob, lye, obe, ole, orb, ore, reb, ree, rob, roe.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-l-o-r-y"
 

+2 letters: hyperbole, obversely, verbosely.

 

+3 letters: hyperbolae, hyperboles.

 

+4 letters: celebratory, elaborately, hyperbolize.

 

+5 letters: biotelemetry, cumbersomely, embryologies, hyperbolized, hyperbolizes, noncelebrity, nonrepayable, rebelliously, trolleybuses, whortleberry.

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

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Alternative Orthography: REEL BOY


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

52 45 45 4C      42 4F 59

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

    

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

01010010 01000101 01000101 01001100 00100000 01000010 01001111 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#69 &#76 &#32 &#66 &#79 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0045 004C      0042 004F 0059

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

523939462364959

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3. Orthography
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