[Dixonary] Round 2945 time to vote for YAWNEY BOX

A short list of only 10 defs this time, which should give you better odds
of finding the correct one.
Vote for your two favorites no later than 5 PM EST, Monday, December 10.

1. a small machine that masks unwanted sound by adding natural and/or
artificial sound into an environment; often used as a sleep aid.

2. [Collector's slang] any simple cardboard cigar box with bold,
attention-grabbing advertising text and images.

3. 1. (Obs.) prison. 2. bordello.

4. [Derb.] a donkey.

5. (Mil. slang) An outside latrine.

6. [Aust. colloq.] a wide-open and now unpacked empty box and therefore
now boring.

7. a flat perforated Chinese jade disk.

8. a closed box used in parapsychology research, in which a subject
tries to either predict or influence the side of a ridge on which a
ball will fall when the box is shaken. (After its inventor, C.H.
Yawney.)

9. the rectangular section of a hysteresis curve containing the most
linear behavior.

10. [NZ] a "hangi" oven (Maori)


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