[Dixonary] Round 2889 - Time to vote!

Give me some of:

#9 - which seems really popular, and

#11 - that thatch course thingy

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 5:08 PM, Shani Naylor <shani.naylor (AT) gmail (DOT) com>
wrote:

> 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:
>
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