Daniel B. Widdis
August 26th, 2010, 12:59 PM
Eighteen definitions for PICUL are presented below. Seventeen of them are
pretenders. Please vote for two definitions of your choice; by voting for
the real one you'll reward yourself with two points and an increased risk of
dealing, but by voting for others you'll reward them for their creativity
and hopefully make them deal and not yourself.
Vote by public reply to this message, before 9pm PDT on Friday, August 27,
2010, which is Midnight on the US East Coast, 0400 GMT Saturday, and 1400 on
Saturday afternoon in Melbourne.
*** PICUL ***
1. eerie
2. roguish
3. a saboteur
4. blue-black
5. _Esperanto_ small
6. lock-opening tool
7. [Med.] a bone spur
8. of no significance [Romansch]
9. a sharp point on an iron fence
10. a minute, slender granule, or point
11. a clasp for holding escargot shells
12. having a soothing and agreeable quality
13. a bird of the partridge family found in equatorial
Africa [Fr]
14. a unit of typographic measurement equal to 12 points in
the Didot system
15. [arch.] a short dead-end passage, often provided where
an extension is planned
16. any of several sub-orders of Ophiurida, generally
characterized by dorsal scales and short unbranched
arms
17. a fermented liquor, believed to be mildly
hallucinogenic and traditionally used in tribal rites,
derived from the piculita cactus (_P. triflora_) of
northern Mexico and the southwestern US
18. Any of various units of weight used in southeast Asia
and China and equal to 100 catties, especially a
Chinese unit equal to 133 1/3 pounds (about 60
kilograms) [Malay pikul, to carry the heaviest load a
man can carry]
--
Dan
pretenders. Please vote for two definitions of your choice; by voting for
the real one you'll reward yourself with two points and an increased risk of
dealing, but by voting for others you'll reward them for their creativity
and hopefully make them deal and not yourself.
Vote by public reply to this message, before 9pm PDT on Friday, August 27,
2010, which is Midnight on the US East Coast, 0400 GMT Saturday, and 1400 on
Saturday afternoon in Melbourne.
*** PICUL ***
1. eerie
2. roguish
3. a saboteur
4. blue-black
5. _Esperanto_ small
6. lock-opening tool
7. [Med.] a bone spur
8. of no significance [Romansch]
9. a sharp point on an iron fence
10. a minute, slender granule, or point
11. a clasp for holding escargot shells
12. having a soothing and agreeable quality
13. a bird of the partridge family found in equatorial
Africa [Fr]
14. a unit of typographic measurement equal to 12 points in
the Didot system
15. [arch.] a short dead-end passage, often provided where
an extension is planned
16. any of several sub-orders of Ophiurida, generally
characterized by dorsal scales and short unbranched
arms
17. a fermented liquor, believed to be mildly
hallucinogenic and traditionally used in tribal rites,
derived from the piculita cactus (_P. triflora_) of
northern Mexico and the southwestern US
18. Any of various units of weight used in southeast Asia
and China and equal to 100 catties, especially a
Chinese unit equal to 133 1/3 pounds (about 60
kilograms) [Malay pikul, to carry the heaviest load a
man can carry]
--
Dan