Tim Lodge
July 9th, 2008, 04:34 AM
Here we have 17 hand-crafted definitions of the word JACKSHAY, along
with one from my dictionary.
Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this
one), before the deadline which is:
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10:00 AM EDT
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New players are welcome, even if you didn't enter a definition this
round. Don't look in a dictionary. Full rules, if you're curious, are
at http://tinyurl.com/br3oc
-- Tim L
*** JACKSHAY ***
1: a barstool.
2: to swindle.
3: a tin quart-pot.
4: a type of battering ram.
5: a jimmy; a burglar's pry-bar.
6: overbearing wielder of petty authority.
7: a foot-stool [false sing. for the supposed pl. chaise.]
8: [Brit. Obs.] a child's high chair (from Fr. jacques-chaise)
9: a horse-drawn vehicle with a third axle behind the carriage.
10: [SW US Dial.] the North American kestrel, _Falco sparverius_.
11: a cart used by cleaners of privies [fm _jack, jakes_ + _shay_
cart]
12: a haying fork, having a long handle and 10 to 12 long, narrow,
blunt tines.
13: a small, open carriage; a two wheeled open carriage or wagon,
pulled by a single horse.
14: a kayaking gate which must be traversed sternwards upstream, then
sternwards downstream.
15: a two-person enclosed carriage popular among courting couples in
the postbellum American South.
16: a humble dwelling; humourously, the second, rustic home of a city
dweller. [Poss. < Fr. slang "jacques-chez", an average man's domicile]
17: an opening in a thick wall for a door or window, especially one
with sides angled so that the opening is larger on the inside of the
wall than on the outside.
18: (19th C.) in the American West, a small, heavy wagon, usu. drawn
by mules; spring-loaded wheel midgers (see illus.) made these vehicles
tip-resistant on steep trails.
with one from my dictionary.
Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this
one), before the deadline which is:
15:00 BST on Thursday 10th July
14:00 UTC
10:00 AM EDT
7:00 AM PDT, all on the same day.
New players are welcome, even if you didn't enter a definition this
round. Don't look in a dictionary. Full rules, if you're curious, are
at http://tinyurl.com/br3oc
-- Tim L
*** JACKSHAY ***
1: a barstool.
2: to swindle.
3: a tin quart-pot.
4: a type of battering ram.
5: a jimmy; a burglar's pry-bar.
6: overbearing wielder of petty authority.
7: a foot-stool [false sing. for the supposed pl. chaise.]
8: [Brit. Obs.] a child's high chair (from Fr. jacques-chaise)
9: a horse-drawn vehicle with a third axle behind the carriage.
10: [SW US Dial.] the North American kestrel, _Falco sparverius_.
11: a cart used by cleaners of privies [fm _jack, jakes_ + _shay_
cart]
12: a haying fork, having a long handle and 10 to 12 long, narrow,
blunt tines.
13: a small, open carriage; a two wheeled open carriage or wagon,
pulled by a single horse.
14: a kayaking gate which must be traversed sternwards upstream, then
sternwards downstream.
15: a two-person enclosed carriage popular among courting couples in
the postbellum American South.
16: a humble dwelling; humourously, the second, rustic home of a city
dweller. [Poss. < Fr. slang "jacques-chez", an average man's domicile]
17: an opening in a thick wall for a door or window, especially one
with sides angled so that the opening is larger on the inside of the
wall than on the outside.
18: (19th C.) in the American West, a small, heavy wagon, usu. drawn
by mules; spring-loaded wheel midgers (see illus.) made these vehicles
tip-resistant on steep trails.