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Tim Lodge
April 22nd, 2014, 03:48 AM
We have a winner by a short head. Dave Cunningham and Paul Keating tied
with 5 points each, but Paul takes the next deal because all his points
were votes, whereas two of Dave's were for guessing the correct def. He
and three others guessed that a GALIONGEE is a Turkish sailor. Apologies
to Mike Shefler and Nancy Shepherdson, whose defs I managed to lose. It was
entirely my fault, so they each get two dealer points as a small recompense..

Over to you, Paul.

-- Tim L


*** GALIONGEE ***

1. a Turkish sailor.
Submitter: OED Votes: 0 & 0 Score: 4 + 0
= 4
Voted for by: Judy Madnick, Johnny Barrs, Dave Cunningham, Dodi
Schultz

2. an altruistic person.
Submitter: Guerri Stevens Votes: 5 & 10 Score: 1
+ 0 = 1
Voted for by: Judy Madnick

3. a shrub found on the Transvaal.
Submitter: Steve Graham Votes: 6 & 17 Score: 0
+ 0 = 0
Voted for by:

4. a traditional Asian rice porridge.
Submitter: Chris Carson Votes: 0 & 0 Score: 4
+ 0 = 4
Voted for by: Mike Shefler, Tim Bourne, Efrem Mallach, Dave
Cunningham

5. hyphen used to join words in Hebrew texts.
Submitter: Judy Madnick Votes: 1 & 2 Score: 1
+ 2 = 3
Voted for by: Guerri Stevens

6. a Tibetan oven fueled with dried yak dung.
Submitter: Efrem Mallach Votes: 4 & 13 Score: 4
+ 0 = 4
Voted for by: Dan Widdis, Steve Graham, Andy Graham-Cumming, Tony
Abell

7. a variety of congee which includes pickled eel.
Submitter: Dick Weltz Votes: 11 & 16 Score: 2
+ 0 = 2
Voted for by: Mike Shefler, Tim Bourne

8. a cosmetic ingredient extracted from the oak gall.
Submitter: Tim Bourne Votes: 4 & 7 Score: 1 +
0 = 1
Voted for by: Andy Graham-Cumming

9. _sl._ in the Indian military, a servant at mess.
Submitter: Dave Cunningham Votes: 1 & 4 Score: 3
+ 2 = * 5*
Voted for by: Nancy Shepherdson, Paul Keating, Dodi Schultz

10. a type of writing desk popular in 17th century Europe.
Submitter: Glen Boswell Votes: 11 & 17 Score: 3
+ 0 = 3
Voted for by: Guerri Stevens, Tony Abell, Millie Morgan

11. [Obs.] a person to whom a galiong is assigned; a convict released
under supervision
Submitter: Millie Morgan Votes: 10 & 15 Score: 2
+ 0 = 2
Voted for by: Dick Weltz, Glen Boswell

12. [Medical] a pad of multiple layers of soft fabric, used for
protecting a wound dressing.
Submitter: Andy Graham-Cumming Votes: 6 & 8 Score:
0 + 0 = 0
Voted for by:

13. [Hind.] an Indian fishing boat of the 19th and early 20th century,
having a small cabin and one or two sails.
Submitter: Dodi Schultz Votes: 1 & 9 Score: 2
+ 2 = 4
Voted for by: Efrem Mallach, Paul Keating

14. a marking on a ship’s side showing the limit of legal submersion
when loaded with cargo under various sea conditions.
Submitter: Dan Widdis Votes: 6 & 17 Score: 1
+ 0 = 1
Voted for by: Keith Hale

15. a superstitious belief, generally; more particularly the deliberate
disobedience of one, such as saying "Macbeth" or walking under a ladder.
Submitter: Keith Hale Votes: 14 & 17 Score: 1
+ 0 = 1
Voted for by: Millie Morgan

16. [West Country dial] gallium aparine, a plant with minute hooked
prickles which enable it to sprawl over other plants and also attach itself
to the clothes of passers by - known elsewhere as cleavers or
sweethearts.
Submitter: Johnny Barrs Votes: 1 & 17 Score: 2
+ 2 = 4
Voted for by: Dick Weltz, Nancy Shepherdson

17. an intricately decorated Easter egg of a type traditionally made in
Poland and Ukraine, produced by drawing a pattern on an egg with wax and
then applying dye (which cannot penetrate the areas covered by wax), then
repeating this process with successive layers of wax and colors of dye, so
that once all the wax is removed a multicolored design is revealed. Also
(in pl. form): the craft of making such eggs.
Submitter: Paul Keating Votes: 9 & 13 Score: 5
+ 0 = *5 *
Voted for by: Keith Hale, Dan Widdis, Steve Graham, Johnny Barrs, Glen
Boswell


No Def: Tony Abell Votes: 6 & 10 Score: 0 +
0 = 0
No Def: Mike Shefler Votes: 4 & 7 Score: 2DP
+ 0 = 2
No Def: Nancy Shepherdson Votes: 9 & 16 Score: 2DP
+ 0 = 2

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Paul Keating
April 22nd, 2014, 03:03 PM
It was a bit of a shock to get such an enthusiastic response for my
seasonal Polish easter egg def. The def is in fact quite genuine, but it
defines the word *pysanka*<http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/265880?p=emailAeH1Hb/77ayT2&d=265880>,
which, my phone told me as I was casting around for a def, was *OED
Online's* word of the day*.* *Galiongee* certainly doesn't look Polish or
Ukrainian to me. Then again, it doesn't look Turkish either, thanks to its mangled
19th-century transliteration<http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/76223?p=emailAenlODoOALvR6&d=76223>
..

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