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Old November 9th, 2021, 06:43 PM
Shani Naylor
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Default Re: [Dixonary] Round 3208: DAWT | DAUT [Call for Votes]

I'm not convinced that daut = daughter, so I'll vote 2 & 4 instead.
BTW Paul, what instrument do you play?



On Tue, 9 Nov 2021, 10:00 PM Paul Keating, <keating (AT) acm (DOT) org> wrote:

> *Here are 11 definitions for dawt | daut. One of them comes from an actual
> dictionary article about the word. Please vote for two of them, by reply to
> this post, before the deadline, which is Thursday 11 November 13h00 CET
> <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Dixonary%20deadline+for+votes+f or+DAUT+or+DAWT+in+round+3208&iso=20211111T1300&p1 =328>.
> That is a little longer than normal, because Armistice Day is a public
> holiday in France, and in the morning my wind band will be playing at a
> church service followed by a procession and wreath-laying ceremony. 1. Sc.
> Rotten. 2. Yorks. A barn swallow. 3. A medieval form of butter-churn. 4. To
> pet, fondle, caress, make much of.  5. India. A sub-caste of the labouring
> class (Shudras) mainly involved in mining and metal-working. 6. Scottish
> (chiefly Orkney and Shetland). A place where a boat can be hauled up and
> kept ashore; spec. a scooped-out trench at the edge of a beach surrounded
> by a shallow wall of stones. Also boat-daut. 7. The forming of a
> semi-permanent joint between two ropes or two parts of the same rope by
> partly untwisting and then interweaving their strands. 8. Arch. An enriched
> angle bead, often having a capital or base, or both. 9. A small African
> egg-eating snake.10. A martial head covering [OE].11. Scot. Daughter.*
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> *-- Paul Keating Soustons, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France *
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