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[Dixonary] Round 2805 FURGON Defs - Vote Now!
Here we have a respectable 14 defs of the word FURGON, only one of which
came from my dictionary, the remainder being the product of your fevered imaginations. Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline of: 20:00 UTC/GMT on Monday 29th May, which is 21:00 BST for the dealer 22:00 CET 4:00 PM EDT 1:00 PM PDT 06:00 AEST on Tuesday 30th in Melbourne 08:00 NZST on Tuesday 30th in New Zealand As usual new players are welcome to join the game. Just don't look up the word in a dictionary until after you've voted. -- Tim L *** FURGON *** 1. obsessive neatness. 2. a blacksmith's hammer. 3. an oven-fork, a poker. 4. an externally supported tent. 5. an arboreal monkey of West Africa. 6. a small barrel used for brewing beer. 7. abounding in, or overgrown with, furze. 8. a medieval vessel used primarily for storing oils. 9. a ballistic engine for shooting or catapulting stones. 10. a pseudo-element postulated by Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity. 11. a contested boundary between properties, or more rarely between cities or states. 12. a small brad used to attach a furring strip to a wall to provide levelling or dampness protection. 13. also FOOGON: mouse deer: a small deer with no antlers from the lower foothills of the Himalayas [usually Tragulus sp.] 14. a part of a suit of armor whose purpose is to make the wearer appear more formidable but which has no real protective value. -- 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. |
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