Tim Lodge
February 4th, 2009, 04:09 PM
I'm a bit late posting these because I've been watching a documentary
on living with Alzheimer's presented by Terry Pratchett - it was
fascinating.
Here are 18 carefully crafted definitions of the word WHAME, only one
of which is from my dictionary. Vote for TWO definitions, as a public
forum message (in reply to this one), before the deadline:
09:00 UTC on Friday, 6th February
4:00 AM EST
1:00 AM PST
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/4m6ger
-- Tim L
** WHAME **
1: a tiller.
2: A gadfly.
3: Fog or mist.
4: [M.E.] whom.
5: steel-cut oats.
6: [obs] to yearn for.
7: moist in all parts.
8: a brag, a boast, a vaunt.
9: a narrow channel for a current of water.
10: a temporary sheep pen, used while shearing.
11: a hidden flaw or crack in a cast-iron ingot.
12: series of vertical cords to receive warp-thread.
13: a now extinct bird once native to the Hawaiian islands.
14: sleeveless mole-skin coat with the fur inside [fr. warm]
15: a low ditch for servants to walk in so that they will not be
observed from a manor house.
16: to delay spring planting based on last summer's caterpillar hairs,
the Farmer's Almanac or groundhog shadows.
17: _Scots._ 1. _obs._ (to) whom. 2. short form of phr. _whame guid_
(tr. of Lat. cui bono 'beneficiary'): legatee
18: The pivoted horizontal crossbar to which the harness traces of a
draft animal are attached, and which in turn is attached to a vehicle
or an implement.
on living with Alzheimer's presented by Terry Pratchett - it was
fascinating.
Here are 18 carefully crafted definitions of the word WHAME, only one
of which is from my dictionary. Vote for TWO definitions, as a public
forum message (in reply to this one), before the deadline:
09:00 UTC on Friday, 6th February
4:00 AM EST
1:00 AM PST
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/4m6ger
-- Tim L
** WHAME **
1: a tiller.
2: A gadfly.
3: Fog or mist.
4: [M.E.] whom.
5: steel-cut oats.
6: [obs] to yearn for.
7: moist in all parts.
8: a brag, a boast, a vaunt.
9: a narrow channel for a current of water.
10: a temporary sheep pen, used while shearing.
11: a hidden flaw or crack in a cast-iron ingot.
12: series of vertical cords to receive warp-thread.
13: a now extinct bird once native to the Hawaiian islands.
14: sleeveless mole-skin coat with the fur inside [fr. warm]
15: a low ditch for servants to walk in so that they will not be
observed from a manor house.
16: to delay spring planting based on last summer's caterpillar hairs,
the Farmer's Almanac or groundhog shadows.
17: _Scots._ 1. _obs._ (to) whom. 2. short form of phr. _whame guid_
(tr. of Lat. cui bono 'beneficiary'): legatee
18: The pivoted horizontal crossbar to which the harness traces of a
draft animal are attached, and which in turn is attached to a vehicle
or an implement.