[Dixonary] Round 3199 vote for GRINDADRAP

Here are 11 definitions for GRINDADRAP, one of which came from a
respectable dictionary.
Vote for your two favorites no later than 5 PM EDT, Thursady, September 30.

1. a traditional whale hunt in the Faroe islands; pilot whales are
herded into small inlets and speared.

2. [Gael.] one who regularly absconds from a pub without paying their
bill.

3. a convoluted ridge between two grooves.

4. a linen cloth decorated with images printed from a copper plate.

5. an Indonesian dried gourd used as a percussion instrument.

6. in Scandinavian folklore, a creature who lives in burrows under open
fields, catching and eating unattended goats, smaller animals, and
occasionally small children.

7. the instinct to seek familiar forms in disordered images like clouds
or constellations; the perception of random stimulus as significant.

8. a commotion or fuss; a kerfuffle.

9. an Icelandic word (lit. ‘gate murder’) coined in a 2012 for ‘drive-by
shooting’, a thing previously unknown; by extension, any undesirable
cultural import.

10. a tube of strong linen, about an inch in diameter, filled with powder
and used in firing mines.

11. a kind of burlesque, serenade, or mock-music, made with pots,
kettles, frying-pans, shouting, screaming, &c., at or near the doors
and windows of old people who marry a second time; especially old
women and widows who marry young men.


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