SCYTALE

Etymology

Noun

scytale (plural scytales)

(historical) A cylinder with a strip of parchment wound around it on which a message is written, used for cryptography in ancient Greece.

Anagrams

• acetyls

Source: Wiktionary



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SUMMIT

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