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bonnyjars
June 17th, 2006, 07:30 PM
This was an interesting round...I nearly made my D0 but Tony stepped in with the correct 'wooden frame for casks'

I am even later than I meant to be with two unexpected 12-mile traffic-jams.. Sorry about that

JohnnyB

The next deal is for Dan Widdis with 6 natural points for his erratics. The honour for the real winners is split between Russ's
seven furlong dash and Dodi's resting cow - they both achieved 5 natural points

1: one who makes and repairs kettles and pots.
Voted for by: Judy Madnick
FROM Tony Abell who voted 16 and *18*, and scores 1 + 2 = 3*

2: in feudal England, a farmer holding his land in return for service on his lord's land
Voted for by: Dan Widdis, Dodi Schultz
FROM Tim Bourne who voted 12 and 19, and scores 2 + 0 = 2

3: a heavy, four-wheel tractor used to haul logs, especially over rugged terrain
Voted for by: Bill Hirst
FROM Chris Carson who voted 4 and 13, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

4: a kind of low horizontal trellis to keep rxipening strawberries from touching the ground.
Voted for by: Chris Carson
FROM Scott Crom who voted 5 and 6, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

5: [Iceland] a thinker [orig. the navigator on a longboat]
Voted for by: Scott Crom
FROM Dave Cunningham who voted 6 and 9, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

6: [Ger.] an old measurement of distance, approximately equal to 7/8 mile.
Voted for by: Dave Cunningham, Scott Crom, Wayne Scott, Guerri Stevens, Nancy Sheperdson
FROM Russ Heimerson who voted 13 and 19, and scores 5 + 0 = 5

7: the cooper's tool which cuts the groove around the top of the barrel, for the securing of the barrel lid.
Voted for by: Roberta Muths
FROM Bill Hirst who voted 3 and 11, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

8: a store room for emergency provisions
Voted for by nobody
FROM Tim Lodge who voted 15 and 19, and scores 0 + 0 = 0

9: landfast Arctic sea-ice [Icel. staldur < ON staldr 'a frozen thing'; more at _still_]
Voted for by: Dave Cunningham, Mike Shefler, Wayne Scott
FROM Paul Keating who voted 10 and 13, and scores 3 + 0 = 3

10: a slow starter
Voted for by: Paul Keating
FROM Hugo Kornelis who voted 13 and 19, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

11: a furnace or oven for annealing.
Voted for by: Bill Hirst, Guerri Stevens
FROM Judy Madnick who voted 1 and 19, and scores 2 + 0 = 2

12: a disease principally affecting sheep
Voted for by: Tim Bourne
FROM Toni Savage who voted 15 and 19, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

13: a cow unable to produce milk.
Voted for by: Dan Widdis, Chris Carson, Paul Keating, Russ Heimerson, Hugo Kornelis
FROM Dodi Schultz who voted 2 and 17, and scores 5 + 0 = 5

14: a maker of wine barrels.
Voted for by: Roberta Muths
FROM Wayne Scott who voted 6 and 9, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

15: a temporary dam or embankment used to impound a landslide
Voted for by: Toni Savage, Tim Lodge, Nancy Sheperdson
FROM Mike Shefler who voted 9 and 17, and scores 3 + 0 = 3

16: one of the gaits performed in dressage; also called stalder step.
Voted for by: Tony Abell
FROM Nancy Sheperdson who voted 6 and 15, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

17: a mason specializing in decorative stonework
Voted for by: Mike Shefler, Dodi Schultz
FROM Guerri Stevens who voted 6 and 11, and scores 2 + 0 = 2

18: A wooden frame to set casks on. [prov Eng]
Voted for by: Tony Abell
FROM Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996 which can't vote, and scores D1

19: a mountain or rocky mass that has resisted erosion and stands isolated in an essentially level area.
Voted for by: Judy Madnick, Tim Bourne, Toni Savage, Tim Lodge, Russ Heimerson, Hugo Kornelis
FROM Dan Widdis who voted 2 and 13, and scores 6 + 0 = 6

No def
FROM Roberta Muths who voted 7 and 14, and scores 0 + 0 = 0



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Daniel B. Widdis
June 18th, 2006, 02:29 AM
On 6/18/06, bonnyjars <bonnyjars (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote:
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>
> This was an interesting round...I nearly made my D0 but Tony stepped in
> with the correct 'wooden frame for casks'



Congrats on your "near-miss". If you hadn't made such a long deadline, you'd
have made it!

New woid shortly.

--
Dan Widdis


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