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Dave Cunningham
September 13th, 2006, 06:02 AM
Alas five of you actually thought the obvious portmanteau def was right :( I think Russ is up to an 80% correct rate on my words now.


1. [Scot.] An idiot. [<lit. a man who urinates facing into the wind.] [Hirst] 2 10 (Savage) (Widdis) (Stone) (Miths) (Abell) 5!

2. (in SE Asia) a money changer. [Lodge] (unavailable for deal) *7 13 (Schultz) (Hirst) (Kornelis) (Crom) 2 + 4 = 6 <--

3. a short riding jacket [_Khytoon_ in India.] [Savage] 1 5 (Stevens) (Kornelis) (Barrs) 3

4. A strong, hot, sand-laden wind of the Sahara and Arabian deserts. [Carson] 14 18 (Stone) (Bourne) 2

5. 1. a generic name for any cartoon cat. 2. any cartoon involving a cat [also kitoon] [Barrs] 3 16 (Savage) 1

6. A protective structure of pilings surrounding a pier or a bridge. [Widdis] 1 18 (Lance) (Heimerson) 2

7. a captive balloon, combining the features of a balloon and kite, used to maintain meteorological instruments at a fixed height. [KITE + (BALL)OON] [RHD] (Stevens)

(Lodge) (Muths) (Abell) (Heimerson) D5

8. A large military unit, consisting of three to five platoons. [Kornelis] 2 3 nil

9. the seed-pod of the Guarambati tree. [Heimerson] 6 *7 2 + 0 = 2 (yet again)

10. a southwesterly monsoon wind in central Burma. [Abell] 1 *7 (Hirst) 2 + 1 = 3

11. a type of bulbous flask, narrowed sharply at one side, used in distilling. [Schultz] 2 15 (Shepherdson) (Madnick) 2

12. A small, clumsy sailing vessel, with a single triangular sail, and a stern-mounted rudder. [Stevens] 3 *7 (Shefler) 2 + 1 = 3

13. _Hist._ the head of a foreign mercantile house in China [Cantonese _kai tun_ chairman, president (of an association)] [Keating] NV (Scott) (Lodge) (Bourne) (Crom)

4

14. An Inuit fishing spear. [Stone] 1 4 (Shepherdson) (Scott) (Madnick) (Carson) 4

15. A three pronged, barbed spear used for catching fish. [Madnick] 11 14 (Schultz) (Shefler) 2

16. A small deciduous shrub of the Himalayan foothills [Lance] 6 18 (Barrs) 1

17. During the Ming dynasty, the title given to the emperor's second wife. [Shefler] 12 15 nil

18. A game originating in Africa in which two players take turns either placing or removing pebbles in two rows of holes in the ground, in accordance with a complicated set

of rules. The object of the game is to force one's opponent to remove the last pebble. [Crom] 2 13 (Lance) (Widdis) (Carson) 3


Scott 2 dealer points (def sent to CS account) 13 14 2+ 0 = 2
Bourne 4 13
Shepherdson 11 14
Muths 1 *7 2 + 0 = 2

Mr. Lodge who would normally be dealer is unavailable :(, leaving the usual winner as the man who would be dealer -- Bill Hirst. Mr. Keating takes on the nominal title of "Winnah" this time out.

Dave
DQ, DF