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JohnnyB
June 3rd, 2010, 01:41 PM
This was a round!

Blet is a word I know and use for ripening medlars - they have to be just
about rotten to be soft enough to eat. However, while I could find many
refences to that fact - medlars need bletting - I couldn't find a dictionary
that defined it that way ... Hence I had to revert to the OED and use the
original definition by Lindley about sleepy pears from way back in the 17th
Century. 4 of you guessed that so I have a D4

Toni Savage scored 7 with her nodules and is our next dealer The real
winner is the singing Dan Widdis with 6 points

Take it away Toni:

JohnnyB

1. short-tempered...
Voted for by Kornelis [From Tim Bourne who voted for 14 and 18] and scores
[1 + 0] = 1

2. [Scots] worn; worn out...
Voted for by Shefler [From Tony Abell who voted for 14 and 19] and scores [1
+ 0] = 1

3. A Romanian soft cheese....
Voted for by Savage, Schultz [From Jim Hart who voted for 6 and 14] and
scores [2 + 0] = 2

4. A minute amount; a jot....
Voted for by Morgan [From Chris Carson who voted for 10 and 14] and scores
[1 + 0] = 1

5. a small dart. (var. _flet_ q.v.)...
Voted for by Grieco [From Dave Cunningham who voted for 9* and 20] and
scores [1 + 2] = 3*

6. A bell tied around the neck of a goat....
Voted for by Hart, Stevens [From Matthew Grieco who voted for 5 and 10] and
scores [2 + 0] = 2

7. a large jib that overlaps the mainsail....
Voted for by nobody [From Judy Madnick who voted for 14 and 17] and scores
[0 + 0] = 0

8. [Obs.] to beat heated metal on an anvil....
Voted for by nobody [From Tim Lodge who voted for 9* and 14] and scores [0 +
2] = 2*

9. to become `sleepy,' as an over-ripe pear...
Voted for by Widdis, Cunningham, Lodge, Schultz [From OED 1989 who can't
vote] and scores [4 + 0] = D4

10. a belvedere; a lookout-point [Russ., view, aspect]...
Voted for by Keating whose vote doesn't count, Grieco, Shepherdson, Carson
[From Paul Keating who voted for 10 and 14] and scores [3 + 0] = 3

11. a small tumour; a swelling, esp. of a hair follicle....
Voted for by Shepherdson, Stevens [From Dodi Schultz who voted for 3 and 9*]
and scores [2 + 2] = 4*

12. in pipe fitting, the rotating part of a union joint....
Voted for by nobody [From Chuck Emery who did not vote ] and scores [0 + 0]
= 0

13. a malicious rumor, especially about a family member (Malay)....
Voted for by nobody [From Nancy Shepherdson who voted for 10 and 11] and
scores [0 + 0] = 0

14. a nodule on a tree trunk, either from disease or damage.* [Bot.]...
Voted for by Keating, Lodge, Carson, Madnick, Abell, Hart, Bourne [From Toni
Savage who voted for 3 and 20] and scores [7 + 0] = 7

15. A dance form that adds element of classical ballet to street dance....
Voted for by Widdis [From Hugo Kornelis who voted for 1 and 20] and scores
[1 + 0] = 1

16. [Heraldry] a small teardrop shaped spot positioned on the field of an
escutcheon....
Voted for by Morgan [From Dick Weltz who voted for 17 and 20] and scores [1
+ 0] = 1

17. In handweaving, a mistake in which a weft thread passes over too many
warp threads....
Voted for by Weltz, Shefler, Madnick [From Scott Crom who voted for 18 and
19] and scores [3 + 0] = 3

18. [News sl.] an inadvertent deletion in an article as the result of an
editorial error....
Voted for by Crom, Bourne [From Mike Shefler who voted for 2 and 17] and
scores [2 + 0] = 2

19. a rubberized bladder used by various air forces for holding fuel at
temporary locations, usually small airstrips....
Voted for by Abell, Crom [From Millie Morgan who voted for 4 and 16] and
scores [2 + 0] = 2

20. A sign used in the notation of plainsong during the Middle Ages,
surviving today in transcriptions of Gregorian chants...
Voted for by Weltz, Cunningham, Savage, Kornelis [From Dan Widdis who voted
for 9* and 15] and scores [4 + 2] = 6*

##. -- No Def Submitted --...
[From Guerri Stevens who voted for 6 and 11] and scores [0 + 0] = 0