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Jim Hart
June 23rd, 2015, 09:05 PM
Our ship set sail a little later than planned. Midshipman Mallach
pointed out that the local high tide was at 0748 not 1030 so some time
was lost while he was keelhauled for being a smartypants. It's true we
may now meet a flood tide at the entrance to the bay but I'm sure you
will all cope.
To amuse you on the voyage here are 18 definitions of MOELLON to shiver
your timbers. Their order has been determined by a secret maritime
formula. Cast your votes in the next 36 hours, ie before
2359 at Port Phillip Heads
1500 in the Thames Estuary
1000 in Chesapeake Bay
all on Thursday 25th
1. beer brewed in birch barrels
2. the solid corners of wax between the hexagons in honeycomb
3. [Swiss-German] a magician of some sort, poss. from _Merlin_ q.v.
4. a cadre of security specialists and bodyguards in a dictatorship
5. A wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a well,
cistern, etc.
6. An inferior kind of scrap-iron, used for making gun-barrels. Hence
of firearms: of wretched quality.
7. A musical instrument with a keyboard and metal plates struck by
hammers that produce bell-like tones
8. A phantom; an apparition.
9. a round-topped mountain [Welsh]
10. a small hole or fissure in a rockface
11. stalk that bears the fruit of a plant
12. a rubble filling between the facing walls of a structure
13. A competitive sport involving tossing bread loaves at a target.
14. an earthenware bowl holding water and serving as a room humidifier.
15. A small edible mushroom with a brown body, closely related to cup
fungi.
16. an open, upward-facing glass lampshade orig. used for gas lamps, to
prevent fires
17. a musical instrument played by striking a series of glass cylinders
filled with varying quantities of liquid.
18. the sugar that is added to wine must to compensate for low sugar
content in poor years; the legal maximum of this
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Jim Hart
June 23rd, 2015, 09:13 PM
Somehow the unintended line breaks have come across from Thunderbird. Sorry
about that. I considered resending but thought that might only make things
worse, so I trust it's readable enough on your own screens.
Jim
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Steve Graham
June 23rd, 2015, 09:23 PM
12 and 16 please
Steve Graham
12. a rubble filling between the facing walls of a structure
16. an open, upward-facing glass lampshade orig. used for gas lamps, to prevent fires
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Paul Keating
June 23rd, 2015, 11:59 PM
5 & 12.
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Guerri Stevens
June 24th, 2015, 04:58 AM
I vote for 9 and 14.
Guerri
On 6/23/2015 10:05 PM, Jim Hart wrote:
> 9. a round-topped mountain [Welsh]
>
> 14. an earthenware bowl holding water and serving as a room humidifier.
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Tim B
June 24th, 2015, 05:07 AM
7 and 15, please.
Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.
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—Keith Hale—
June 24th, 2015, 05:18 AM
Hmmm. No one going for the double musical instruments so far. I
suppose i will vote 5 & 7, for the fun of it all. Whhheeee!
-Keith Hale-
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Efrem Mallach
June 24th, 2015, 06:52 AM
Music at sea, in forms such as dancing the hornpipe and singing sea shanties, is a centuries-old tradition. I'll try the musical 7 and 17, hoping not to suffer the same fate as the band members on RMS Titanic.
Efrem
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On Jun 23, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Jim Hart <jfshart (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
> Our ship set sail a little later than planned. Midshipman Mallach pointed out that the local high tide was at 0748 not 1030 so some time was lost while he was keelhauled for being a smartypants. It's true we may now meet a flood tide at the entrance to the bay but I'm sure you will all cope.
>
> To amuse you on the voyage here are 18 definitions of MOELLON to shiver your timbers. Their order has been determined by a secret maritime formula. Cast your votes in the next 36 hours, ie before
> 2359 at Port Phillip Heads
> 1500 in the Thames Estuary
> 1000 in Chesapeake Bay
> all on Thursday 25th
>
>
> 7. A musical instrument with a keyboard and metal plates struck by hammers that produce bell-like tones
>
>
> 17. a musical instrument played by striking a series of glass cylinders filled with varying quantities of liquid.
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Judy Madnick
June 24th, 2015, 07:42 AM
I may as well randomly choose two definitions since my attempts at analyzing definitions doesn't seem to work very well. With that in mind, I'll choose the following:
15. A small edible mushroom with a brown body, closely related to cup
fungi.
18. the sugar that is added to wine must to compensate for low sugar
content in poor years; the legal maximum of this
Judy Madnick
Albany, NY
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endash@verizon.net
June 24th, 2015, 07:59 AM
Number 10 seems reasonable, and number 13 is so off-the-wall that it's probably true.
-- Dick Weltz
On 06/23/15, Jim Hart<jfshart (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
Our ship set sail a little later than planned. Midshipman Mallach
pointed out that the local high tide was at 0748 not 1030 so some time
was lost while he was keelhauled for being a smartypants. It's true we
may now meet a flood tide at the entrance to the bay but I'm sure you
will all cope.
To amuse you on the voyage here are 18 definitions of MOELLON to shiver
your timbers. Their order has been determined by a secret maritime
formula. Cast your votes in the next 36 hours, ie before
2359 at Port Phillip Heads
1500 in the Thames Estuary
1000 in Chesapeake Bay
all on Thursday 25th
1. beer brewed in birch barrels
2. the solid corners of wax between the hexagons in honeycomb
3. [Swiss-German] a magician of some sort, poss. from _Merlin_ q.v.
4. a cadre of security specialists and bodyguards in a dictatorship
5. A wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a well,
cistern, etc.
6. An inferior kind of scrap-iron, used for making gun-barrels. Hence
of firearms: of wretched quality.
7. A musical instrument with a keyboard and metal plates struck by
hammers that produce bell-like tones
8. A phantom; an apparition.
9. a round-topped mountain [Welsh]
10. a small hole or fissure in a rockface
11. stalk that bears the fruit of a plant
12. a rubble filling between the facing walls of a structure
13.. A competitive sport involving tossing bread loaves at a target.
14. an earthenware bowl holding water and serving as a room humidifier.
15. A small edible mushroom with a brown body, closely related to cup
fungi.
16. an open, upward-facing glass lampshade orig. used for gas lamps, to
prevent fires
17. a musical instrument played by striking a series of glass cylinders
filled with varying quantities of liquid.
18. the sugar that is added to wine must to compensate for low sugar
content in poor years; the legal maximum of this
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Dave Cunningham
June 24th, 2015, 09:45 AM
12 and 18 to spread the votes
Dave
On Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 10:05:11 PM UTC-4, Jim Hart wrote:
> Our ship set sail a little later than planned. Midshipman Mallach
> pointed out that the local high tide was at 0748 not 1030 so some time
> was lost while he was keelhauled for being a smartypants. It's true we
> may now meet a flood tide at the entrance to the bay but I'm sure you
> will all cope.
>
> To amuse you on the voyage here are 18 definitions of MOELLON to shiver
> your timbers. Their order has been determined by a secret maritime
> formula. Cast your votes in the next 36 hours, ie before
> 2359 at Port Phillip Heads
> 1500 in the Thames Estuary
> 1000 in Chesapeake Bay
> all on Thursday 25th
>
>
> 1. beer brewed in birch barrels
>
> 2. the solid corners of wax between the hexagons in honeycomb
>
> 3. [Swiss-German] a magician of some sort, poss. from _Merlin_ q.v.
>
> 4. a cadre of security specialists and bodyguards in a dictatorship
>
> 5. A wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a well,
> cistern, etc.
>
> 6. An inferior kind of scrap-iron, used for making gun-barrels. Hence
> of firearms: of wretched quality.
>
> 7. A musical instrument with a keyboard and metal plates struck by
> hammers that produce bell-like tones
>
> 8. A phantom; an apparition.
>
> 9. a round-topped mountain [Welsh]
>
> 10. a small hole or fissure in a rockface
>
> 11. stalk that bears the fruit of a plant
>
> 12. a rubble filling between the facing walls of a structure
>
> 13. A competitive sport involving tossing bread loaves at a target.
>
> 14. an earthenware bowl holding water and serving as a room humidifier.
>
> 15. A small edible mushroom with a brown body, closely related to cup
> fungi.
>
> 16. an open, upward-facing glass lampshade orig. used for gas lamps, to
> prevent fires
>
> 17. a musical instrument played by striking a series of glass cylinders
> filled with varying quantities of liquid.
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> 18. the sugar that is added to wine must to compensate for low sugar
> content in poor years; the legal maximum of this
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France International/Mike Shefler
June 24th, 2015, 12:29 PM
I'll try 9 and 10.
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Christopher Carson
June 24th, 2015, 12:52 PM
7 and 12.
Chris
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Tim Lodge
June 24th, 2015, 03:32 PM
I'll go for one of the musical instruments and the Welsh hill, 7 and 9:
7. A musical instrument with a keyboard and metal plates struck by
hammers that produce bell-like tones
9. a round-topped mountain [Welsh]
-- Tim L
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nancyshepherdson
June 24th, 2015, 06:22 PM
I'm feeling musical: 7 and 17.
Nancy
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Daniel Widdis
June 24th, 2015, 09:42 PM
I don't believe any of them, including my own.
I'll go for #3 for the Merlin reference, and #6 for creative use of the
word "wretched".
> 3. [Swiss-German] a magician of some sort, poss. from _Merlin_ q.v.
> 6. An inferior kind of scrap-iron, used for making gun-barrels. Hence
> of firearms: of wretched quality.
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Dodi Schultz
June 24th, 2015, 10:51 PM
Well, I've boiled it down to four that I think MIGHT make sense. Maybe.
Possibly. It's probably none of them, but . . .
I'll go with
> 9. a round-topped mountain [Welsh]
and
> 10. a small hole or fissure in a rockface
—Dodi
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Shani Naylor
June 25th, 2015, 01:00 AM
5 & 18 for me.
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Tony Abell
June 25th, 2015, 06:10 AM
I'll take 7 and 10:
> 7. A musical instrument with a keyboard and metal plates struck by
> hammers that produce bell-like tones
> 10. a small hole or fissure in a rockface
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