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Dave Cunningham
August 24th, 2016, 06:45 AM
And here I had hoped to find a really obscure word --


1. to spill [Scots Dict] D (Lodge) (Barrs) D2

2. [Obs] irresponsibility [Hale] 9 12 (Shefler) 1

3. a semicircular gouging chisel. [Madnick] 4 10 (Lodge) (Mallach)
(Carson) 3

4. ice formed on rocks from sea spray. [Shefler] 2 9 (Madnick)
(Bourne) (Mallach) (Naylor) (Carson) 5!!

5. One quarter of a hogshead (about 60 litres). [Abell] NV (Graham)
(Naylor) (Stevens) 3

6. [Sc.] Sour milk that has thickened or curdled. [Naylor] 4 5 (Widdis)
1

7. [Sc.] the Red Grouse _Logopus lagopus scotia_ [Lodge] *1 3
(Graham) 2 + 1 = 3

8. A painful sore or swelling around a fingernail or toenail.
[Carson] 3 4 (Bourne) (Widdis) 2

9. Storage area beneath the floorboards of a Viking longship. [Mallach]
3 4 (Shefler) (Hale) 2

10. to prepare nacre (mother of pearl) from oyster shells [Ger _schale_
shell, skin] [Barrs] 1 12 (Madnick) 2 + 1 = 3

11. a slang term for a person who manually sorts mail that was rejected by
the automated processing. [Stevens] 5 12 nil

12. [Eng. law] The liberty of keeping beasts of chase, or royal gaine, on
another man's ground as well as on one's own ground, protected even from
the owner of the land, with a power of hunting them thereon. [Widdis] 6
8 (Barrs) (Hale) (Stevens) 3


Bourne 4 8
Graham 5 7

Making Mike the next dealer with 5 votes, and five with 3 points this time
out!

Dave

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