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[Dixonary] Round 2885 - JINKER - Call for votes
Here we go, then, without the aid of a safety net!
Please vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this one), before the deadline, which is 9 am BST on Thursday 12th April. That will be 0800 UTC, or 4 am in New York, or 1 am in LA, or (probably) 8 pm in Auckland. New players are welcome, even if you didn't enter a definition this round. Don't look in a dictionary. Full rules, if you're curious, can be seen at www.dixonary.net. 1. a toady. 2. a mistake; a blunder. 3. a maker of chain mail. 4. a deceiver; a trickster; a cheat. 5. a large boulder or other obstruction. 6. a wheeled conveyance for moving heavy logs. 7. a small coin of old England, equal to 2 farthings. 8. the stony residue from burned coal or from a furnace. 9. construction slang for a port-a-potty; aka Blue Room. 10. a bump on the head from a blow, or the blow that causes such a bump. 11. the Western Damselfly: an insect of the suborder Zygoptera in the order Odonata. 12. steel scrap or direct reduced iron added to the furnace in some steelmaking processes. 13. Rolled-up pieces of dough, baked, then covered with cinnamon and sugar or chocolate and served warm. 14. a heavy rifle with a very long barrel which was often rested upon another person's shoulder to aim and fire [Obs. but common in India and China throughout 19th cent] Best wishes, Tim Bourne. -- 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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