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[Dixonary] Round 2938 WHERRET Defs - Vote Now!
Here are 14 defs of the word WHERRET, only one of which came from my
dictionary rather than your collective imagination. Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message, before the deadline of : 10:00 UTC on Wednesday 14th November 11:00 CET 5:00 AM EST 2:00 AM PST 21:00 AEDT in Melbourne 23:00 NZDT in New Zealand New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted. -- Tim L *** WHERRET *** 1. the honey badger. 2. a type of synthetic fuel. 3. clockwork toy or automata. 4. (Cornish) a labourer in the tin-mines. 5. one of the moveable cogs in a pentache. 6. [Scots] variant of "were" form of the verb "to be". 7. a sharp blow; esp. a box on the ear or slap on the face. 8. a mountaineering clip that grips rope when weight is applied. 9. a long oar or sweep used to propel a Thames wherry in the absence of wind. 10. a small climbing bird (_Strigops habroptila_) of Australia and New Zealand. 11. a small, flat purse worn hanging from a girdle by men and women, approx. 1300-1600 CE. 12. a thickened horny or bony plate on a turtle's shell or on the back of a crocodile, stegosaurus, etc. 13. 1) a large boat used as a ferry to cross tidal waters; 2) to ferry people and animals across tidal waters. 14. a small semi-aquatic North American member of the Rodentia order characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws. -- 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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