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nancyshepherdson
August 25th, 2005, 12:40 AM
I should have expected, given my lack of time to do this, that there
would be a tie. Also, that there would not have been a compilation
of results since 1634, so I'd have to look through all of the
results since then. Sooo...if this is wrong, I plead Arghhh.

I *think* Tim Lodge is the next dealer and Guerri Stevens is the
lucky runner up, based on Tim being just 2 points ahead in rolling
scores in rounds 1633-1637.

Tim: 4 3 1 3 2
Guerri: 1 3 2 3 2

The real definition, I'm fairly proud to say, fooled all but two
players. "The twelfth part of a ploughland" just struck me as the
kind of definition I might make up if I couldn't think of anything
better. But OED insists it is the real definition.

So, Tim, take it away or check my calculations, whichever you prefer.

Nancy

1. a sheriff.
by Scott Crom
Votes: Kryvko, Scultz 0 + 2 = 2

2. a female gnu
by Tim Bourne
Votes: Kryvko, Abell 0 + 2 = 2

3. juniper _obs. (Milton)_.
by Paul Keating
Votes: Lodge 0 + 1 = 1

4. underground water-channel.
by Judy Madnick
Votes: Kornelis, [Madnick] 0 + 1 = 1

5. [Scot.] enough; sufficient.
by Tim Lodge
Votes: Emery, Stevens, Savage, Cunningham, Keating 0 + 5 = 5

6. a type of boat used on the rivers of Eastern Europe.
by Chuck Emery
Votes: 0 + 0 = 0

7. the twelfth part of a ploughland.
by OED
Votes: John Barrs, Cunningham D2

8. loyal; steadfast.
by Tony Abell
Votes: Emery, Shultz, Crom 0 + 3 = 3

9. lustful; foolish
by Russ Heimerson
Votes: Keating, Crom 0 + 2 = 2

10. to impale, as with a sword.
by Dodi Schultz
Votes: 0 + 0 = 0

11. a metal rim sometimes used on a gauntlet.
by Toni Savage
Votes: John Barrs, Bourne, Madnick 0 + 3 = 3

12. a solitary hill in an otherwise flat area.
by Guerri Stevens
Votes: Widdis, Mayer, Lodge, Carson, Abell 0 + 5 = 5

13. [Afrikaans] a young boy.
by Dave Cunningham
Votes: Bourne 2* + 1 = 3

14. snow, either in drifts or heavy accumulations.
by Wayne Scott
Votes: Kornelis, Carson 0 + 2 = 2

15. to sit silently, pondering the world.
by Hugo Kornelis
Votes: Widdis, Mayer 0 + 2 = 2

16. _Scots_ a kind of flatbottom rowboat.
by Dan Widdis
Votes: 0 + 0 = 0

17. what happens when a gnu or a gnat is annoyed; frequently found
in the forms gneevish or gneeved.
by Carolyn Mayer
Votes: 0 + 0 = 0

18. a technique of decorating metal in which areas that have been
hollowed out, as by incising, are filled with colored enamel and
fired.
by Chris Carson
Votes: Stevens 0 + 1 = 1

19. ['jen-iv-er'] derogatory term for Luther's hymns, which he set
to contemporary folk tunes; derived from 'Geneva jigs'.
by John Barrs
Votes: Savage 2* + 1 = 3


no def: Barbara Kryvko 0 + 0 = 0









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Guerri Stevens
August 25th, 2005, 03:14 AM
And it's nice that Tim and I voted for each other's definitions.
Guerri

nancyshepherdson wrote:
> I *think* Tim Lodge is the next dealer and Guerri Stevens is the
> lucky runner up...



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Judy Madnick
August 25th, 2005, 07:03 AM
----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: nancyshepherdson <sjnanner (AT) compuserve (DOT) com>
Subject: [Dixonary] Rd. 1638 GNEEVE results

Nice round, Nancy! I had a feeling that I accidentally voted for my own definition . . . and I did. Oh, well. Sorry to have taken a vote away from someone else though.

Judy Madnick
Albany, NY


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Paul Keating
August 25th, 2005, 04:11 PM
> Sorry to have taken a vote away from someone else though.

No need to apologize. The harm you do your own cumulative average score by
voting for your own def is a little over twice the harm you do anyone else
by depriving them of your vote. So you have already been adequately
punished.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague



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