[Dixonary] Yockel defs up!

[Dave Cunningham]

18 defs -- not bad for a holiday weekend, indeed. One is real. The
rest are pure fiction. Vote for two hereof before 6 a.m. EDT on
Wednesday 27 May, 2009. (and don't peek)

1. an itinerant minstrel.

2. the handle of an axe or similar tool.

3. the Objibwa name for the Northern Raven.

4. A barn door latch.

5. A crisp bread made of fine wheat flour.

6. a slightly sour bread made of coarse rye flour.

7. _Slang_ a pitiful attempt at humor; a joke that falls flat.

8. the yaffle.

9. a flagrant error.

10. mystical straight line between features of landscape.

11. Any very large object or person. [Fm. Dutch: joekel]

12. a small basket used to transport berries to market.

13. On a carriage, an iron catch on the shaft with a looped strap,
which enables a horse to back or hold back the vehicle.

14. A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic
pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.

15. [obs.] earlier form of yokel, a country bumpkin or hick. from
Ger. Yoeckel, a small-holding farmer.

16. _obs._ a measure of land, about 50 or 60 acres; hence, later, a
small manor. _Kent._ [fm _yoke_, as requiring one yoke of oxen to
till] [

17. Loose packing material used to protect a ship's cargo from damage
during transport.

18. a wire fixed to two points on the gaff and to which a block and a
halyard are attached so as to allow the gaff to be raised to the
vertical.



Thanks! As always, all errors are the fault of the dealer.


Dave
DQ, DF

[EnDash@aol.com]

I'll take a shot with numbers 13 and 16.

-- Dick Weltz


In a message dated 5/25/2009 7:56:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
cunn5393 (AT) bellsouth (DOT) net writes:


18 defs -- not bad for a holiday weekend, indeed. One is real. The
rest are pure fiction. Vote for two hereof before 6 a.m. EDT on
Wednesday 27 May, 2009. (and don't peek)



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[Guerri Stevens]

I vote for 13 and 18.

Guerri

Dave Cunningham wrote:
>
> 13. On a carriage, an iron catch on the shaft with a looped strap,
> which enables a horse to back or hold back the vehicle.
>
> 18. a wire fixed to two points on the gaff and to which a block and a
> halyard are attached so as to allow the gaff to be raised to the
> vertical.

[Judy Madnick]

How about bread?

<< 5. A crisp bread made of fine wheat flour.

<< 6. a slightly sour bread made of coarse rye flour.

Judy

[Dodi Schultz]

Haven't the faintest.

Strictly at random, #6 and #17.

--Dodi

[Toni Savage]

ok-- 8 because if there ever WAS such a def, you would pick it.

and 10 because who would make that up? <I have a feeling I'm about to find out...>

-- Toni Savage


--- On Mon, 5/25/09, Dave Cunningham <cunn5393 (AT) bellsouth (DOT) net> wrote:

> * 8. the yaffle.
>

>
> 10. mystical straight line between features of landscape.
>

[Tim Lodge]

Dave

A yaffle flew into my garden today, but it wasn't able to tell me if
it was also called a yockel, so I'll go for the finer of the two
breads and the obsolete land measure:

5 and 16 please.

-- Tim L

[Nancy Shepherdson]

I'll take 1 and double it for 11. Both wrong.

Nancy

On May 25, 6:56*am, Dave Cunningham <cunn5... (AT) bellsouth (DOT) net> wrote:
> 18 defs -- not bad for a holiday weekend, indeed. One is real. The
> rest are pure fiction. Vote for two hereof before 6 a.m. EDT on
> Wednesday 27 May, 2009. (and don't peek)
>
> * 1. an itinerant minstrel.
>
> * 2. the handle of an axe or similar tool.
>
> * 3. the Objibwa name for the Northern Raven.
>
> * 4. A barn door latch.
>
> * 5. A crisp bread made of fine wheat flour.
>
> * 6. a slightly sour bread made of coarse rye flour.
>
> * 7. _Slang_ *a pitiful attempt at humor; a joke that falls flat.
>
> * 8. the yaffle.
>
> * 9. a flagrant error.
>
> *10. mystical straight line between features of landscape.
>
> *11. Any very large object or person. [Fm. Dutch: joekel]
>
> *12. a small basket used to transport berries to market.
>
> *13. On a carriage, an iron catch on the shaft with a looped strap,
> which enables a horse to back or hold back the *vehicle.
>
> *14. A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic
> pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
>
> *15. [obs.] earlier form of yokel, a country bumpkin or hick. from
> Ger. Yoeckel, a small-holding farmer.
>
> *16. _obs._ a measure of land, about 50 or 60 acres; hence, later, a
> small manor. _Kent._ [fm _yoke_, as requiring one yoke of oxen to
> till] * [
>
> *17. Loose packing material used to protect a ship's cargo from damage
> during transport.
>
> *18. a wire fixed to two points on the gaff and to which a block and a
> halyard are attached so as to allow the gaff *to be raised to the
> vertical.
>
> Thanks! *As always, all errors are the fault of the dealer.
>
> Dave
> * DQ, DF

[JohnnyB]

I fancy the Ojibwa raven and the slightly sour bread - I guess it only
tickles some of the taste-buds

That’s #3 and #6 please

JohnnyB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
> [mailto:Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com] On Behalf Of Dave Cunningham
> Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 12:56 PM
> To: Dixonary
> Subject: [Dixonary] Yockel defs up!
>
>
> 18 defs -- not bad for a holiday weekend, indeed. One is
> real. The rest are pure fiction. Vote for two hereof before 6
> a.m. EDT on Wednesday 27 May, 2009. (and don't peek)
>
> 1. an itinerant minstrel.
>
> 2. the handle of an axe or similar tool.
>
> 3. the Objibwa name for the Northern Raven.
>
> 4. A barn door latch.
>
> 5. A crisp bread made of fine wheat flour.
>
> 6. a slightly sour bread made of coarse rye flour.
>
> 7. _Slang_ a pitiful attempt at humor; a joke that falls flat.
>
> 8. the yaffle.
>
> 9. a flagrant error.
>
> 10. mystical straight line between features of landscape.
>
> 11. Any very large object or person. [Fm. Dutch: joekel]
>
> 12. a small basket used to transport berries to market.
>
> 13. On a carriage, an iron catch on the shaft with a looped
> strap, which enables a horse to back or hold back the vehicle.
>
> 14. A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet
> in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
>
> 15. [obs.] earlier form of yokel, a country bumpkin or hick.
> from Ger. Yoeckel, a small-holding farmer.
>
> 16. _obs._ a measure of land, about 50 or 60 acres; hence,
> later, a small manor. _Kent._ [fm _yoke_, as requiring one
> yoke of oxen to
> till] [
>
> 17. Loose packing material used to protect a ship's cargo
> from damage during transport.
>
> 18. a wire fixed to two points on the gaff and to which a
> block and a halyard are attached so as to allow the gaff to
> be raised to the vertical.
>
>
>
> Thanks! As always, all errors are the fault of the dealer.
>
>
> Dave
> DQ, DF
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[Tim B]

I've always liked "yaffle", and thought it very descriptive of the
typical call of the Green Woodpecker, but I suppose it might sound like
"yockel" to some people; and 15 sounds very reasonable.

So 8 and 15, please.

Best wishes,
Tim B.

[Daniel B. Widdis]

I wish I knew what a yaffle was, or why everyone's talking about it. And
the Styrofoam popcorn deserves a name.

8 and 17.

--
Dan

[Paul Keating]

I was almost taken in by 11: it's dead plausible and has a satisfying
rightness to it.

But I can't conceive a plausible borrowing route.

I vote for 8, for the sheer cheek of it, and for 16 because it might be
true.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague

[Hugo Kornelis]

Hi all,

A very tough round. After eliminating all defs I found unlikely,
unbelievable, implausable or too plausable, I still had six choices left.
From that shortlist, I chose the following two to waste my points on (and
I'm sure one of the other four will turn out to be the correct def):

> 6. a slightly sour bread made of coarse rye flour.

> 9. a flagrant error.

Best, Hugo

[Jim Hart]

I don't know what the yaffle is either but whatever it is I don't want
to encourage it any further so I'm voting for the mystical and the
practical with 10 and 17

Jim

[Millie]

I'll go for

No.10. mystical straight line between features of landscape.
and
No.16. _obs._ a measure of land, about 50 or 60 acres; hence, later, a small
manor. _Kent._ [fm _yoke_, as requiring one yoke of oxen to till]


Millie

[Tony Abell]

Vox pop for me: 8 and 16.

> 8. the yaffle.

> 16. _obs._ a measure of land, about 50 or 60 acres; hence, later, a
> small manor. _Kent._ [fm _yoke_, as requiring one yoke of oxen to
> till] [

[Christopher Carson]

I'm going to completely ignore vox pop and go for 4 and 9.

Chris

[Tim Lodge]

There are no yaffles in my garden today (although we've got a pair
nesting nearby) but I've just chased a peacock - well, a peahen,
actually - off my vegetable patch! It must be an escapee from a
nearby hotel.

-- Tim L

Tim B wrote:
> I've always liked "yaffle", and thought it very descriptive of the
> typical call of the Green Woodpecker, but I suppose it might sound like
> "yockel" to some people; and 15 sounds very reasonable.
>
> So 8 and 15, please.
>
> Best wishes,
> Tim B.

[JohnnyB]

Nah, that was an objibwa raven

JohnnyB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
> [mailto:Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com] On Behalf Of Tim Lodge
> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 3:04 PM
> To: Dixonary
> Subject: [Dixonary] Re: Yockel defs up!
>
>
> There are no yaffles in my garden today (although we've got a
> pair nesting nearby) but I've just chased a peacock - well, a
> peahen, actually - off my vegetable patch! It must be an
> escapee from a nearby hotel.
>
> -- Tim L
>
> Tim B wrote:
> > I've always liked "yaffle", and thought it very descriptive of the
> > typical call of the Green Woodpecker, but I suppose it might sound
> > like "yockel" to some people; and 15 sounds very reasonable.
> >
> > So 8 and 15, please.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Tim B.
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[France International]

It obviously has to be either 5 or 6.


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[Russ Heimerson]

Vox Pop... #8 and #16, please.

Russ

[Scott Crom]

I'll have 6 and 8, please.

Scott