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Efrem Mallach
November 16th, 2015, 09:34 AM
Folks,

A butty is (definition #14) a person who wins a contract to manage mining in a particular mine or area, to be paid so much per ton of coal or ore. Butties then hire workers, pay them, and keep whatever’s left over. The butty system was common in England and Wales in the 19th century.

John Barrs pointed out that the word has yet a third meaning, the second of a pair of barges pulled by one horse. Fortunately, nobody came up with that as their definition.

Dan Widdis jumped out to an early lead with his flat-bottomed, clumsy Canadian boat (#11). Shani Naylor caught him with her also-nautical rum ration (#4). They were neck-and-neck for a while. The difference ultimately came down to Dan’s two points for divining the correct definition, earning him a commendable total of 9 points and the next deal. Shani did not, leaving her the traditional “winner” with 7 points. Next was Dodi Schultz with 5, for her beams between two walls (#16) - my sentimental favorite for reviving that meme.

Full results:

1. irritable. From Carson, C. who voted 4, 11. Voted for by: None. Score: 0.
2. [Scots] putrid. From Cunningham, D. who voted 4, 11. Voted for by: Hart. Score: 1.
3. adjoining, adjacent to. From Bourne, T. who voted 7, 11. Voted for by: None. Score: 0.
4. [_Obs. Nav. slang_] a rum ration. From Naylor, S. who voted 11, 15. Voted for by: Carson, Cunningham, Graham, Hale, Madnick, Shepherdson, Stevens. Score: 7.
5. a sloping container for washing ore. From Madnick, J. who voted 4, 15. Voted for by: Hart, Weltz, Widdis. Score: 3.
6. a top-heavy rock formation in desert climes. From Hale, K. who voted 4, 10. Voted for by: None. Score: 0.
7. a sailor’s bag for small personal possessions. From Lodge, T. who voted 11, 16. Voted for by: Bourne, Schultz, Shefler. Score: 3.
8. Somerset dialect for a field buttercup (ranunculus arvensis). From Barrs, J. who voted 11, *14*. Voted for by: None. Score: 2.
9. an iron or steel stanchion over which ships' hawsers are looped. From Weltz, D. who voted 5, 16. Voted for by: None. Score: 0.
10. a sticky, yellow secretion produced by the larva of the luna moth. From Stevens, G. who voted 4, 16. Voted for by: Hale. Score: 1.
11. a boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers. From Widdis, D. who voted 5, *14*. Voted for by: Abell, Barrs, Bourne, Carson, Cunningham, Lodge, Naylor. Score: 9.
12. during the British rule of India, an adjutant to a captain of the Khyber Rifles. From Shefler, M. who voted 7, 13. Voted for by: None. Score: 0.
13. a small auxiliary sail or trysail used in place of the mainsail in very high winds. From Hart, J. who voted 2, 5. Voted for by: Abell, Shefler, Shepherdson. Score: 3.
14. a contractor responsible for mining a certain area, paid so much per ton of coal or ore. From Dictionary who did not vote. Voted for by: Barrs, Graham, Schultz, Widdis. Score: 4.
15. a significant expression of fascicles lying parallel with one another and collected together into large bundles separated by fibrous septa. From Graham, S. who voted 4, *14*. Voted for by: Madnick, Naylor. Score: 4.
16. n. one of a series of diagonally positioned beams placed between the two sections of a double wall; v. to brace (a wall) by positioning such beams. From Schultz, D. who voted 7, *14*. Voted for by: Lodge, Stevens, Weltz. Score: 5.
- No definition from Shepherdson, N. who voted 4, 13. Voted for by: N/A. Score: 0.
- No definition from Abell, T. who voted 11, 13. Voted for by: N/A. Score: 0.

Next, we (sadly) head to the Fort Lauderdale airport to return to Massachusetts and the dank November cold. I am grateful to my wife’s late parents for having had the good sense to raise her in Miami Beach, and to the Miami Beach High School class of 19xx for not holding its reunions in August. It’s all yours, Dan!

Efrem

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