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Old January 21st, 2020, 04:34 PM
Tim Lodge
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Default [Dixonary] Round 3044 SPARSILE Defs - Vote Now!

Here we have 12 defs of the word SPARSILE, only one of which came from my
dictionary. Please vote for your two favoutites by public reply to this
message before the deadline, which is:

09:00 UTC/GMT on Thursday 23rd January
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New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've
voted.

-- Tim L

*** SPARSILE ***

1. A picket fence.

2. Open to change.

3. Of a star: Not included in any constellation.

4. [Bot.] Having a hard sheath surrounding the stem.

5. In weaving, the cord or wire through which each thread is passed into
the warp.

6. a rocky grass covered islet completely covered only at spring
high-tides and storms.

7. _Naut._ (_var._ of "Sparsail" q.v.,) a sail with two sheets set
at the stern of a dinghy.

8. To spring back, especially to resume a former position or structure
after being stretched or compressed.

9. a form of rigging in which a sail's angle of attack can be changed by
adjusting sheets attached to its spar.

10. (Typog.) a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is
usual for a letter or type of the same height.

11. a class of goods manufactured from flexible materials, mainly used in
17th century shipping manifests and rarely seen thereafter.

12. A sudden shift or slippage of the strata in a mine, often caused by
the collapse of a supporting pillar; a mining incident or accident caused
by this.

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