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Judy Madnick
May 1st, 2012, 08:30 PM
Please note that Cory was uncooperative, so I had to edit the results to make corrections. I hope the following is accurate. If there are any errors, I apologize in advance.

The winner of round 2301 is Chris Carson, whose definition "a short cape" received 5 votes, plus 2 points for guessing the correct definition. Millie Morgan takes coveted second place with 5 points. And there were 2 players in runner-up position with 4 points: Paul Keating and Mike Shefler. The true definition was 17: "stout cotton cloth" (http://phrontistery.info/j.html), which 2 perceptive players guessed. I don't seem to have received a vote from Toni Savage -- and Johnny Barrs was a DQ.

1. a vest made of leather that has been boiled then pressed to make it rigid, used by Swedish light infantry in the 17th Century in place of traditional armor
Votes from: Emery, Stevens and Widdis
Submitted by: Dixon, who scores natural 3.

2. a small card table from the Jacobean period with an inlaid or veneered diamond pattern using different coloured woods - usually cherry and walnut
Vote from: Crom
Submitted by: Barrs, who scores natural 1.

3. an early form of retort with a cooling tube, precursor to the Liebig condenser, attrib. to French chemist Marcel Jaconet (1726-79)
Votes from: Bourne and Graham
Submitted by: Hart, who scores natural 2.

4. a tribunal established during the French Revolution and charged with determining the fate of royalty; a member of said tribunal
Votes from: Crom, Weltz, Wetzstein and Zorbas
Submitted by: Shefler, who scores natural 4.

5. the local cadre of French officials charged with dealing with the papacy after it moved to Avignon, France in 1309
Vote from: Wetzstein
Submitted by: Graham, who scores natural 1.

6. one who manipulates a corpse, imitating the sounds that emanate from a body after death; a ventriloquist (obs.)
Votes from: Bensburg, Hale, Hart, Lodge, and Shefler
Submitted by: Morgan, who scores natural 5

7. an aperitif made with 1 part yellow Chartreuse liqueur and 5 parts Chablis or other dry white Burgundy wine
Vote from: Shepherdson
Submitted by: Weltz, who scores natural 1.

8. a thread net formerly used, particularly in the nineteenth century, to keep women's hair in place
Votes from: Keating, Shepherdson, Stevens, and Weltz
Submitted by: Bourne, who scores natural 4.

9. a piston bearing that has failed but cannot be replaced without tearing apart the engine
No votes
Submitted by: Zorbas.

10. a small ax used in ice climbing, usually as a pair with one held in each hand
Vote from: Zorbas
Submitted by: Lodge, who scores natural 1.

11. the mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes
Vote from: Abell
Submitted by: Widdis, who scores natural 1.

12. an extinct South American cat related to the jaguar
Votes from: Morgan and Schultz
Submitted by: Emery, who scores natural 2.

13. a mostly obsolete name for a spy or assassin
Votes from: Lodge, Shefler and Widdis
Submitted by: Hale, who scores natural 3.

14. a variant of backgammon played in Belgium
Votes from: Dixon and Graham
Submitted by: Keating, who scores 2 + 2, total 4.

15. a bootjack built into the side of a bed
Vote from: Bensburg
Submitted by: Abell, who scores natural 1.

16. a small gardening instrument
No votes
Submitted by: Savage.

17. stout cotton cloth
Votes from: Carson and Keating
Real definition from http://phrontistery.info/j.html

18. the male ocelot
Votes from: Emery and Hart
Submitted by: Schultz, who scores natural 2.

19. a short cape
Votes from: Bourne, Dixon, Hale, Stevens and Morgan
Submitted by: Carson, who scores 5 + 2, total 7.

20. a life vest
Votes from: Abell and Schultz
Submitted by: Bensburg, who scores natural 2.

21. a spindle
Votes from: Carson
Submitted by: Stevens, who scores natural 1.


Player Def Voted for Votes Guess DP Total
------ --- --------- ----- ----- -- -----
Carson 19 *17* & 21 5 2 7
Morgan 6 12 & 19 5 5
Shefler 4 6 & 13 4 4
Keating 14 8 & *17* 2 2 4
Dixon 1 14 & 19 3 2
Hale 13 6 & 19 3 3
Bourne 8 3 & 19 3 3
Hart 3 6 & 18 2 2
Schultz 18 12 & 20 2 2
Emery 12 1 & 18 2 2
Widdis 11 1 & 13 1 1
Weltz 7 4 & 8 1 1
Graham 5 3 & 14 1 1
Abell 15 11 & 20 1 1
Lodge 10 6 & 13 1 1
Stevens 21 8 & 19 1 1
Barrs 2 N/V 1 1
Savage 16 N/V 0 0
Crom 2 & 4 0 0
Wetzstein 4 & 5 0 0
Shepherdson 7 & 8 0 0
Zorbas 9 4 & 10 0 0

Christopher Carson
May 2nd, 2012, 07:25 AM
Ouch! Here we go again. Thanks to not having been able to get to the
library to replenish my word list, I'm going to have to dig for a new word
and then post via my desktop at home with RDP since that's where Cory
resides. I will get all that done ASAP as conditions at work and the remote
link allow.

Chris
Dealah Elect

Dodi Schultz
May 2nd, 2012, 08:39 AM
On 5/1/2012 9:30 PM, Judy Madnick wrote:

> 17. stout cotton cloth Votes from: Carson and Keating Real definition
> from http://phrontistery.info/j.html

Odd. I wonder where the phrontistery guy got "stout". I looked it up after
I cast my wrong votes, and the online dictionaries (dictionary.com,
freedictionary.com, Merriam-Webster, etc.) as well as the ones on my shelf
(American Heritage, Concise OED, et al.), all say it's a *lightweight*
cotton cloth.

John Barrs
May 2nd, 2012, 09:23 AM
Dodi

the full OED says
A cotton fabric originally imported from India, but now manufactured in
England. The application of the name has undergone change; in the trade it
now means ‘A plain cotton cloth of medium thickness or weight, lighter than
a shirting, and heavier than a mull’.It comes from Urdu juggernaut
(according to OED) and I think Kippling uses it in Kim to describe a
heavier overgarment

"mull" now there is a word I shouldn't play - 17 defs according to OED

JohnnyB


On 2 May 2012 14:39, Dodi Schultz <DodiSchultz (AT) nasw (DOT) org> wrote:

> On 5/1/2012 9:30 PM, Judy Madnick wrote:
>
> 17. stout cotton cloth Votes from: Carson and Keating Real definition
>> from http://phrontistery.info/j.**html <http://phrontistery.info/j.html>
>>
>
> Odd. I wonder where the phrontistery guy got "stout". I looked it up after
> I cast my wrong votes, and the online dictionaries (dictionary.com,
> freedictionary.com, Merriam-Webster, etc.) as well as the ones on my
> shelf (American Heritage, Concise OED, et al.), all say it's a
> *lightweight* cotton cloth.
>

Dodi Schultz
May 2nd, 2012, 09:42 AM
So that source says it's neither stout nor lightweight but "medium"? Confusing!

—Dodi




On 5/2/2012 10:23 AM, John Barrs wrote:


>
>
> the full OED says
>
>
> A cotton fabric originally imported from India, but now
> manufactured in England. The application of the name has undergone
> change; in the trade it now means ‘A plain cotton cloth of medium
> thickness or weight, lighter than a shirting, and heavier than a mull’.
>
> It comes from Urdu juggernaut (according to OED) and I think Kippling
> uses it in Kim to describe a heavier overgarment
>
> "mull" now there is a word I shouldn't play - 17 defs according to OED
>
> JohnnyB
>
>
> On 2 May 2012 14:39, Dodi Schultz <DodiSchultz (AT) nasw (DOT) org
> <mailto:DodiSchultz (AT) nasw (DOT) org>> wrote:
>
> On 5/1/2012 9:30 PM, Judy Madnick wrote:
>
> 17. stout cotton cloth Votes from: Carson and Keating Real definition
> from http://phrontistery.info/j. html
> <http://phrontistery.info/j.html>
>
>
> Odd. I wonder where the phrontistery guy got "stout". I looked it up
> after I cast my wrong votes, and the online dictionaries
> (dictionary.com <http://dictionary.com>, freedictionary.com
> <http://freedictionary.com>, Merriam-Webster, etc.) as well as the
> ones on my shelf (American Heritage, Concise OED, et al.), all say
> it's a *lightweight* cotton cloth.
>
>

Jim Hart
May 3rd, 2012, 04:18 AM
Dodi, I too checked online and wondered about stout vs lightweight, and
whether it could be both. My nearest paper dictionary (Chambers, somewhat
more lightweight and less stout than JB's OED) says:
a cotton fabric, rather stouter than muslin - different from the fabric
orig. so named which was imported from *Jagannath* (Puri) in India; a thin
material with waterproof backing used for medical dressings. [ See also
Juggernaut.]

which doesn't really help, does it?

Jim