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[Dixonary] Round 2889 - Time to vote!
Hi all
It's time to vote for our word TWACK. We have 13 defs straight from your feverish imaginations, and one from a bona fide dictionary. Please vote for two each. 1. _slang_ To steal goods from a vehicle in transit. 2. A flat wood, plywood, or similar type member used as a connection at the intersection of wood members. 3. Nodule of metal obtained after assaying. 4. [Old English] A foolish error; more commonly a heresy. 5. To lightly tap swords, as a prelude to a fencing match. 6. To utter copiously. 7. An unsolicited charitable donation. 8. A stick used by Morris dancers in rehearsing, in lieu of a sword. 9. A communications protocol for transaction processing in which each phase of the transaction is acknowledged twice -from TWice ACKnowledged. 10. A shopper who looks over all the commodities but buys nothing. 11. A long wooden pin designed to hold thatch courses in place on a roof. 12. The secondary diverter on a cotton gin. 13. [onom.] The sound of a timepiece; _tock_. 14. A stopper on a zip wire or other overhead cable preventing the pulley from reaching the attachment point of the cable. Please vote by 10pm Friday 27 April (my time) or: Los Angeles <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/usa/los-angeles> (USA - California) Friday 27 April 2018 at 3:00:00 a.m. PDT <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/pdt> New York <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/usa/new-york> (USA - New York) Friday 27 April 2018 at 6:00:00 a.m. EDT <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/edt> London <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/uk/london> (United Kingdom - England) Friday 27 April 2018 at 11:00:00 a.m. BST <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/bst> Amsterdam <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/netherlands/amsterdam> (Netherlands) Friday 27 April 2018 at 12:00:00 Noon CEST <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/cest> Happy voting! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dixonary" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dixonary+unsubscribe (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. |