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Tim B
March 2nd, 2010, 01:15 PM
Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this
one), before the deadline, which is 8 am GMT on Thursday 4 March - 3 am
on the East Coast, midnight Wednesday/Thursday on the West Coast, and so on.

New players are welcome, even if you didn't enter a definition this
round. Don't look in a dictionary.

1: A camel saddle.

2: A Japanese soaking tub.

3: [Arab.] A sorbet made with hashish.

4: A cylindrical headdress of the gods.

5: A dog of indeterminate breed; a mongrel.

6: A cap that is wrapped around by a turban.

7: [Mng.] Sun dried strips of sheep or goat meat.

8: A confederation of villages in former Czechoslovakia.

9: [NZ colloq] Alcoholic drinking banned in public spaces.

10: A potent form of hashish used primarily in northern Africa and the
Middle East.

11: A large tent, used in 18th and 19th Century India for overnight
stops while travelling.

12: A card game similar to Canasta, but played with 3 decks and allowing
melds of suited runs as well as sets.

13: A defensive fence made up of slender, sharply-pointed stakes placed
on a slant, and sometimes tipped with poison.

14: A style of mutual toasting with sake, usually by Japanese men, in
which the toasters' arms are linked around each other's at the elbows.

15: A type of tumulus or barrow characteristic of a culture located on
the steppes of southern Russia about 5000 B.C. and later spreading to
the Danube, northern Europe, and northern Iran from around 3500 B.C.

16: A method of inventory control, originally developed in Japanese
automobile factories, that keeps inventories low by scheduling needed
goods and equipment to arrive a short time before a production run begins.

Best wishes,

Tim B.

France International
March 2nd, 2010, 01:26 PM
I"ll go topside with 4 and 6.

Matthew
March 2nd, 2010, 01:47 PM
I vote for 10 and 12.
Matthew Grieco

JohnnyB
March 2nd, 2010, 01:47 PM
Tim

As #2 and #16 have just about twice as many words as their own numbers - and
are both Japanese - that strikes me as as good a reason for voting for them
as any - so I'll take thos two please


JohnnyB

To save anyone counting, 31 is a near approximation to 32 - (31/2 rounded
up)*2

>
> 2: A Japanese soaking tub.
>
>
> 16: A method of inventory control, originally developed in
> Japanese automobile factories, that keeps inventories low by
> scheduling needed goods and equipment to arrive a short time
> before a production run begins.
>

Guerri Stevens
March 2nd, 2010, 02:51 PM
I vote for 11 and 16.

Guerri

Tim B wrote:
>
> 11: A large tent, used in 18th and 19th Century India for overnight
> stops while travelling.
>
> 16: A method of inventory control, originally developed in Japanese
> automobile factories, that keeps inventories low by scheduling needed
> goods and equipment to arrive a short time before a production run begins.

Nancy Shepherdson
March 2nd, 2010, 02:52 PM
Two hashish definitions? When have we ever had that? Some of you all
must be experts on same, or one is real. Nevertheless, I'll take two
of the Japanese defs...2 and 14.

Nancy

Judy Madnick
March 2nd, 2010, 03:00 PM
<< 3: [Arab.] A sorbet made with hashish.

<< 10: A potent form of hashish used primarily in northern Africa
<< and the
<< Middle East.

Judy

EnDash@aol.com
March 2nd, 2010, 03:02 PM
Numbers 2 and 12 for me.

-- Dick Weltz

Dodi Schultz
March 2nd, 2010, 03:05 PM
Of the half-dozen especially dubious and therefore likely defs to which I've boiled down this odd lot, I'll try:

&gt; 6: A cap that is wrapped around by a turban.

and

&gt; 13: A defensive fence made up of slender, sharply-pointed stakes
&gt; placed on a&nbsp; slant, and sometimes tipped with poison.

--Dodi

Chris Carson
March 2nd, 2010, 03:24 PM
6 and 11 for me this time.

Chris

Dave Cunningham
March 2nd, 2010, 04:00 PM
1 and 10, hopefully not used at the same time.

Dave

Tim Lodge
March 2nd, 2010, 04:29 PM
I've absolutely no idea, so I've picked these two with a pin:

> 4: A cylindrical headdress of the gods.

> 9: [NZ colloq] Alcoholic drinking banned in public spaces.

-- Tim L

Millie Morgan
March 2nd, 2010, 06:00 PM
No idea, Tim!
I'll try 1 and 5

1: A camel saddle.
5: A dog of indeterminate breed; a mongrel.

Best wishes
Millie

Daniel B. Widdis
March 3rd, 2010, 02:06 AM
7 and 13 please

--
Dan

Chuck
March 3rd, 2010, 03:15 PM
Tim -

From this varied assortment, I'll try -

8: A confederation of villages in former Czechoslovakia.

and

12: A card game similar to Canasta, but played with 3 decks and allowing
melds of suited runs as well as sets.

Thanks,

Chuck

Tony Abell
March 3rd, 2010, 09:10 PM
I'll try 6 and 14 for no particular reason:

> 6: A cap that is wrapped around by a turban.

> 14: A style of mutual toasting with sake, usually by Japanese men, in
> which the toasters' arms are linked around each other's at the elbows.