[Dixonary] Round 3116 vote for HOP TU NAA

Hi all

We have before us a baker's dozen of definitions for our word HOP TU NAA.
Please vote for 2 of them before the deadline.

1. Trivial nonsense.

2. One of 68 different square dancing calls.

3. The ghost orchid, native to Papua New Guinea.

4. A Maori name for the Cabbage Tree (Cordyline australis).

5. A short-handled club made from whalebone used by the Maori in combat.

6. A rite of passage for young men on certain Pacific islands, requiring
them to dive deep for pearls.

7. With variants, a legendary paradise in the mythology of a number of
Native peoples in the American Southwest.

8. [Maori] a rabbit or hare (now nearly eradicated as a pest, the rabbit
was introduced to New Zealand before 1840).

9. A device made from hinged marked sticks, used by Polynesian navigators
to infer distance from land from wave height and wind speed.

10. A climbing perennial diœcious plant (Humulus lupulus, N.O. Urticaceæ,
suborder Cannabineæ), with rough lobed leaves shaped like those of the vine.

11. The night of 31 October as celebrated on the Isle of Man, often marked
by children singing songs door-to-door and the display of lanterns carved
out of turnips.

12. (Chemical Engineering) trademark a synthetic rubber formed by
polymerizing butadiene or by copolymerizing it with such compounds as
acrylonitrile or styrene.

13. Faroe Isles Idiom: The catching of pilot whales by driving them inshore
and spearing them - still allowed as an ethnic practice controlled by the
islands themselves rather than internationally.


The deadline is 9am Monday 2 November 2020 my time (NZDT) or:



Los Angeles, USA Sunday 1 November 2020 at noon

New York, USA Sunday 1 November 2020 at
3pm

London, United Kingdom Sunday 1 November 2020 at 8pm

Paris, France Sunday 1 November 2020 at
9pm



(please check these times and adjust accordingly)



New players always welcome!

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