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Tim Lodge
November 4th, 2009, 04:57 AM
I thought this round was going to be a close-run one, but the last few
votes propelled Dick Weltz into a two-point lead over Scott Crom.
Dick won 7 votes for his innocuous low-growing shrub. Three players
guessed correctly that a STOPSEL is an incediary missile.

So the next deal goes to Dick Weltz with 7 natural points.

Over to you, Dick!

-- Tim L


*** STOPSEL ***

1: [S Afr] coagulated blood.
Voted for by: Toni Savage
FROM Hugo Kornelis who voted 9 and 13, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

2: a projecting part of a wall.
Voted for by nobody
FROM Russ Heimerson who voted *8* and 9, and scores 0 + 2 = 2*

3: a mold used for cheese making.
Voted for by: Dan Widdis
FROM Chris Carson who didn't vote, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

4: a weedy plant of the pink family.
Voted for by nobody
FROM Tony Abell who didn't vote, and scores 0 + 0 = 0

5: stringed instrument resembling a zither.
Voted for by nobody
FROM Judy Madnick who voted 10 and 15, and scores 0 + 0 = 0

6: the final sale of the day by a peddler (see _handsel_)
Voted for by: Dan Widdis, Guerri Stevens
FROM Dave Cunningham who voted *8* and 16, and scores 2 + 2 = 4*

7: a draft blocker placed at the bottom of a door or window.
Voted for by: Millie Morgan, Dick Weltz
FROM Guerri Stevens who voted 6 and 14, and scores 2 + 0 = 2

8: an incendiary missile, consisting of tow, brimstone, etc.
Voted for by: Dave Cunningham, Johnny Barrs, Russ Heimerson
FROM Oxford English Dictionary 2nd Ed 1989 which can't vote, and
scores D3

9: a low-growing hedgelike shrub most often used in bordering flower
beds.
Voted for by: Hugo Kornelis, Chuck Emery, Dodi Schultz, Russ
Heimerson, Scott Crom, Jim Hart, Mike Shefler
FROM Dick Weltz who voted 7 and 15, and scores 7 + 0 = 7

10: (Architecture) a projecting stone, often carved, at the end of a
molding.
Voted for by: Tim Bourne, Judy Madnick, Scott Crom, Nancy Shepherdson
FROM Dan Widdis who voted 3 and 6, and scores 4 + 0 = 4

11: water-proof and corrosion-proof roadside bin used to store de-
icing salt.
Voted for by nobody
FROM Johnny Barrs who voted *8* and 15, and scores 0 + 2 = 2*

12: a woodland plant with low leaf clusters and small three-lobed
yellow flowers
Voted for by: Dodi Schultz, Jim Hart
FROM Tim Bourne who voted 10 and 13, and scores 2 + 0 = 2

13: a small triangular sail rigged between fore and mainmasts on a
full rigged ship.
Voted for by: Tim Bourne, Hugo Kornelis
FROM Chuck Emery who voted 9 and 15, and scores 2 + 0 = 2

14: a mat placed at an exterior door for wiping the shoes; a doormat,
esp of a farmhouse
Voted for by: Guerri Stevens
FROM Millie Morgan who voted 7 and 16, and scores 1 + 0 = 1

15: a triangular block of wood nailed to the bottom of a stud to keep
it from slipping sideways.
Voted for by: Judy Madnick, Johnny Barrs, Chuck Emery, Dick Weltz,
Nancy Shepherdson
FROM Scott Crom who voted 9 and 10, and scores 5 + 0 = 5

16: the swallow-tailed gyrfalcon, _Falco hirundica_, of northern
Europe; it is valued for its appetite for rodents.
Voted for by: Dave Cunningham, Millie Morgan, Mike Shefler, Toni
Savage
FROM Dodi Schultz who voted 9 and 12, and scores 4 + 0 = 4

No def
FROM Jim Hart who voted 9 and 12, and scores 0 + 0 = 0

No def
FROM Mike Shefler who voted 9 and 16, and scores 0 + 0 = 0

No def
FROM Nancy Shepherdson who voted 10 and 15, and scores 0 + 0 = 0

No def
FROM Toni Savage who voted 1 and 16, and scores 0 + 0 = 0

Dodi Schultz
November 4th, 2009, 12:33 PM
> 8: an incendiary missile, consisting of tow, brimstone, etc.
> Voted for by: Dave Cunningham, Johnny Barrs, Russ Heimerson
> FROM Oxford English Dictionary 2nd Ed 1989...

That work certainly includes a whole lot of words unlisted
anywhere else! I tried looking it up after voting and could find
only the German stöpsel, a plug (so I figured that in English, it
must be a trade name for that bottom-of-the-door draft blocker).

I gather that over there, you have OED2 access through local
libraries?

--Dodi

Tim Lodge
November 4th, 2009, 01:45 PM
Dodi

>> I gather that over there, you have OED2 access through local libraries?<<

Yes, it's a terrific service. If you're registered with your local
public library, you can get online access to some wonderful research
resources at zero cost. As well as the OED, some of the others are
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Grove Music Online, Safari
Books Online, and Oxford Reference Online, which includes dictionaries
of quotations, thesauruses, an encyclopaedia, and many other resources
that I haven't even looked at yet. It makes it almost worthwhile
paying your Council Tax, our local government tax!

-- Tim L

Dodi Schultz
November 4th, 2009, 06:16 PM
>>> I gather that over there, you have OED2 access through
>>> local libraries?<<
>
> Yes, it's a terrific service. If you're registered with your
> local public library, you can get online access to some
> wonderful research resources at zero cost. As well as the
> OED, some of the others are Oxford Dictionary of National
> Biography, Grove Music Online, Safari Books Online, and Oxford
> Reference Online, which includes dictionaries of quotations,
> thesauruses, an encyclopaedia, and many other resources that I
> haven't even looked at yet. It makes it almost worthwhile
> paying your Council Tax, our local government tax!
>
> -- Tim L

Here in NY, we have something similar with possession of a New
York Public Library card (which is free for the asking at any
library branch). It provides online access to a flock of useful
references, including several encyclop(a)edias--but not,
unfortunately, any edition of the OED. :-(

--Dodi