[Dixonary] Rd. 2255: Strid Results

[Nancy Shepherdson]

Hi all –

I didn’t know if strid was going to be a D11 or a D0 for me, because
the real definition was so perfectly “dixon,” ie, fairly locquacious
and not a little non-sequiturish, (perfect vote bait) but #8 came
through for me.

A D0 it is for: “A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks,
which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride,” used by Wordsworth
once upon a time, and, according to Johnny, who was outside internet
range for the weekend, also a name for just such a passage in Bolton.
So he was DQ, of course, after he got back.

And, to take care of more pressing matters, Dodi Schultz is the new
dealer for her “strewn, scattered,” which is actually what this word
sounds like it should mean, breaking a three-way tie by being ahead in
rolling scores.

Finishing covetedly second are Steve Dixon’s rake and Dan Widdis’s
dead body attitude.

Take it away, Dodi!

Relieved ex-dealer,

Nancy


1. a loud noise (see _strident_)
Dave Cunningham 0 + 0 = 0

2. a vitreous substance used in making porcelain, glazes, or enamels
Dick Weltz
Votes: Madnick, Widdis 0 + 2 = 2

3. in the production of Scotch whisky, the straight-pronged rake used
to spread and stir barley malt.
Steve Dixon
Votes: Stevens, Cunningham, Graham, Lodge 0 + 4 = 4

4. a weed of the family Compositae, common in Scotland and Northern
England.
Toni Savage
Votes: Morgan, Weltz, Widdis 0 + 3 = 3

5. a clip for holding stair-carpet in place.
Tim Lodge
Votes: Hale 0 + 1 = 1

6. [Obs.] strewn; scattered.
Dodi Schultz
Votes: Cunningham, Morgan, Savage, Crom
0 + 4 = 4

7. 1.[Obs.] A gangplank, a boarding ramp. 2. A walkway leading around
the orchestra pit, enabling actors to get closer to the audience
Millie Morgan 0 + 0 = 0

8. A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as
if it might be crossed at a stride
1913 Webster’s D0 !!

9. To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body. [Obs.
or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Dan Widdis
Votes: Schultz, Shefler, Crom, Lodge 0 + 4 = 4

10. A wooden frame used as a mold for mud bricks.
Tony Abell
Votes: Stevens, Carson, Graham 0 + 3 = 3

11. _nautical_ A square bar used as a support for a topmast.
Chris Carson
Votes: Madnick 0 + 1 = 1

12. mottled; streaked with various colors.
Judy Madnick
Votes: Hale, Carson 0 + 2 = 2

13. a small aphid-like insect.
Chuck Emery
Votes: Schultz, Shefler, Weltz 0 + 3 = 3

14. the courtship song of certain species of cicada.
Mike Shefler
Votes: Savage 0 + 1 = 1

15. Having stripes or other straight markings.
Keith Hale 0 + 0 = 0

16. a speedboat.
Guerri Stevens 0 + 0 = 0


No def: Steve Graham 0 + 0 = 0
No def: Scott Crom 0 + 0 = 0

[Judy Madnick]

<< A D0 it is

Very nice!

Judy Madnick

[Chris Carson]

Very nice D0, Nancy. Well done.

Chris

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 15, 2011, at 6:45 PM, Nancy Shepherdson <nancygoat (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

> Hi all –
>
> I didn’t know if strid was going to be a D11 or a D0 for me, because
> the real definition was so perfectly “dixon,� ie, fairly locquacious
> and not a little non-sequiturish, (perfect vote bait) but #8 came
> through for me.
>
> A D0 it is for: “A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks,
> which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride,� used by Wordsworth
> once upon a time, and, according to Johnny, who was outside internet
> range for the weekend, also a name for just such a passage in Bolton.
> So he was DQ, of course, after he got back.
>
> And, to take care of more pressing matters, Dodi Schultz is the new
> dealer for her “strewn, scattered,� which is actually what this word
> sounds like it should mean, breaking a three-way tie by being ahead in
> rolling scores.
>
> Finishing covetedly second are Steve Dixon’s rake and Dan Widdis’s
> dead body attitude.
>
> Take it away, Dodi!
>
> Relieved ex-dealer,
>
> Nancy
>
>
> 1. a loud noise (see _strident_)
> Dave Cunningham 0 + 0 = 0
>
> 2. a vitreous substance used in making porcelain, glazes, or enamels
> Dick Weltz
> Votes: Madnick, Widdis 0 + 2 = 2
>
> 3. in the production of Scotch whisky, the straight-pronged rake used
> to spread and stir barley malt.
> Steve Dixon
> Votes: Stevens, Cunningham, Graham, Lodge 0 + 4 = 4
>
> 4. a weed of the family Compositae, common in Scotland and Northern
> England.
> Toni Savage
> Votes: Morgan, Weltz, Widdis 0 + 3 = 3
>
> 5. a clip for holding stair-carpet in place.
> Tim Lodge
> Votes: Hale 0 + 1 = 1
>
> 6. [Obs.] strewn; scattered.
> Dodi Schultz
> Votes: Cunningham, Morgan, Savage, Crom
> 0 + 4 = 4
>
> 7. 1.[Obs.] A gangplank, a boarding ramp. 2. A walkway leading around
> the orchestra pit, enabling actors to get closer to the audience
> Millie Morgan 0 + 0 = 0
>
> 8. A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as
> if it might be crossed at a stride
> 1913 Webster’s D0 !!
>
> 9. To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body. [Obs.
> or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
> Dan Widdis
> Votes: Schultz, Shefler, Crom, Lodge 0 + 4 = 4
>
> 10. A wooden frame used as a mold for mud bricks.
> Tony Abell
> Votes: Stevens, Carson, Graham 0 + 3 = 3
>
> 11. _nautical_ A square bar used as a support for a topmast.
> Chris Carson
> Votes: Madnick 0 + 1 = 1
>
> 12. mottled; streaked with various colors.
> Judy Madnick
> Votes: Hale, Carson 0 + 2 = 2
>
> 13. a small aphid-like insect.
> Chuck Emery
> Votes: Schultz, Shefler, Weltz 0 + 3 = 3
>
> 14. the courtship song of certain species of cicada.
> Mike Shefler
> Votes: Savage 0 + 1 = 1
>
> 15. Having stripes or other straight markings.
> Keith Hale 0 + 0 = 0
>
> 16. a speedboat.
> Guerri Stevens 0 + 0 = 0
>
>
> No def: Steve Graham 0 + 0 = 0
> No def: Scott Crom 0 + 0 = 0
>

[Millie Morgan]

Congratulations Nancy; well deserved!!

--Millie


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy Shepherdson" <nancygoat (AT) gmail (DOT) com>
To: "Dixonary" <dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:45 AM
Subject: [Dixonary] Rd. 2255: Strid Results

.... A D0 it is for: “A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks,
which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride” ...

[Dodi Schultz]

Congratulations on the D0, Nancy!

I've just got the news, folks, and it's near midnight here. The new word
for the next round will be coming up in the EST morning.

—Dodi

[Daniel Widdis]

Great word choice and well deserved D0!

--
Dan

[Hugo Kornelis]

Congratulations on the D0, Nancy!

Op 16-11-2011 0:45, Nancy Shepherdson schreef:
> Hi all –
>
> I didn’t know if strid was going to be a D11 or a D0 for me, because
> the real definition was so perfectly “dixon,” ie, fairly locquacious
> and not a little non-sequiturish, (perfect vote bait) but #8 came
> through for me.
>
> A D0 it is for: “A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks,
> which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride,” used by Wordsworth
> once upon a time, and, according to Johnny, who was outside internet
> range for the weekend, also a name for just such a passage in Bolton.
> So he was DQ, of course, after he got back.
>
> And, to take care of more pressing matters, Dodi Schultz is the new
> dealer for her “strewn, scattered,” which is actually what this word
> sounds like it should mean, breaking a three-way tie by being ahead in
> rolling scores.
>
> Finishing covetedly second are Steve Dixon’s rake and Dan Widdis’s
> dead body attitude.
>
> Take it away, Dodi!
>
> Relieved ex-dealer,
>
> Nancy
>
>
> 1. a loud noise (see _strident_)
> Dave Cunningham 0 + 0 = 0
>
> 2. a vitreous substance used in making porcelain, glazes, or enamels
> Dick Weltz
> Votes: Madnick, Widdis 0 + 2 = 2
>
> 3. in the production of Scotch whisky, the straight-pronged rake used
> to spread and stir barley malt.
> Steve Dixon
> Votes: Stevens, Cunningham, Graham, Lodge 0 + 4 = 4
>
> 4. a weed of the family Compositae, common in Scotland and Northern
> England.
> Toni Savage
> Votes: Morgan, Weltz, Widdis 0 + 3 = 3
>
> 5. a clip for holding stair-carpet in place.
> Tim Lodge
> Votes: Hale 0 + 1 = 1
>
> 6. [Obs.] strewn; scattered.
> Dodi Schultz
> Votes: Cunningham, Morgan, Savage, Crom
> 0 + 4 = 4
>
> 7. 1.[Obs.] A gangplank, a boarding ramp. 2. A walkway leading around
> the orchestra pit, enabling actors to get closer to the audience
> Millie Morgan 0 + 0 = 0
>
> 8. A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as
> if it might be crossed at a stride
> 1913 Webster’s D0 !!
>
> 9. To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body. [Obs.
> or Prov. Eng.& Scot.]
> Dan Widdis
> Votes: Schultz, Shefler, Crom, Lodge 0 + 4 = 4
>
> 10. A wooden frame used as a mold for mud bricks.
> Tony Abell
> Votes: Stevens, Carson, Graham 0 + 3 = 3
>
> 11. _nautical_ A square bar used as a support for a topmast.
> Chris Carson
> Votes: Madnick 0 + 1 = 1
>
> 12. mottled; streaked with various colors.
> Judy Madnick
> Votes: Hale, Carson 0 + 2 = 2
>
> 13. a small aphid-like insect.
> Chuck Emery
> Votes: Schultz, Shefler, Weltz 0 + 3 = 3
>
> 14. the courtship song of certain species of cicada.
> Mike Shefler
> Votes: Savage 0 + 1 = 1
>
> 15. Having stripes or other straight markings.
> Keith Hale 0 + 0 = 0
>
> 16. a speedboat.
> Guerri Stevens 0 + 0 = 0
>
>
> No def: Steve Graham 0 + 0 = 0
> No def: Scott Crom 0 + 0 = 0
>

[Tim B]

> A D0 it is for: “A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks,
> which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride,” used by Wordsworth
> once upon a time, and, according to Johnny, who was outside internet
> range for the weekend, also a name for just such a passage in Bolton.
> So he was DQ, of course, after he got back.

Yes, that was the reason for my DQ too; actually "The Strid" is in Wharfedale near Bolton Abbey, in
the Yorkshire Dales, not Bolton in Lancashire. A reference says "At its narrowest point the Strid is
only about two metres wide, and foolhardy visitors have in the past tried to jump across the roaring
chasm. Failure is invariably fatal, however, as there is no recorded incidence of anyone having
survived a fall into the thundering waters of the Strid - which mercilessly sucks its victims into
the underwater caves and eroded tunnels which lie hidden underneath each side of the rocky channel."

Best wishes,
Tim B.

[John Barrs]

Well, there you go - that sounds much more likely

== my DQ was becasue the head of the mill-race to one of the old woollen
mills in Bolton itself is narrow and can be walked over if you have few
nerves - I have never been to Bolton so this snippet of information in my
mind was based on an old novel about "life in t'mill" and just as lethal -
probably written by some effete southerner Romantik who'd never been up
there - but a character falling into the mill race and being "drownded" on
the mill-wheel was part of the story.

Wharfedale was where we spent our holiday back in June and I hadn't been to
that part since my undergrad days as a geology (subsid) student wandering
about Ingleborough and Swaledale

JohnnyB

On 16 November 2011 11:22, Tim B <dixonary (AT) siam (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

>
> A D0 it is for: “A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks,
>> which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride,” used by Wordsworth
>> once upon a time, and, according to Johnny, who was outside internet
>> range for the weekend, also a name for just such a passage in Bolton.
>> So he was DQ, of course, after he got back.
>>
>
> Yes, that was the reason for my DQ too; actually "The Strid" is in
> Wharfedale near Bolton Abbey, in the Yorkshire Dales, not Bolton in
> Lancashire. A reference says "At its narrowest point the Strid is only
> about two metres wide, and foolhardy visitors have in the past tried to
> jump across the roaring chasm. Failure is invariably fatal, however, as
> there is no recorded incidence of anyone having survived a fall into the
> thundering waters of the Strid - which mercilessly sucks its victims into
> the underwater caves and eroded tunnels which lie hidden underneath each
> side of the rocky channel."
>
> Best wishes,
> Tim B.
>

[Tim B]

> Wharfedale was where we spent our holiday back in June and I hadn't been to
> that part since my undergrad days as a geology (subsid) student wandering
> about Ingleborough and Swaledale

I spent three years at college in Leeds, with a fair number of weekends spent as a volunteer warden
in the National Park. I never attempted the jump across the Strid, though!

Best wishes,
Tim B.

[thejazzmonger]

There is an English company, Wharfedale, that makes awesome sound
equipment. Is it located in Wharfedale?

sd

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Tim B <dixonary (AT) siam (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

>
> Wharfedale was where we spent our holiday back in June and I hadn't been
>> to
>> that part since my undergrad days as a geology (subsid) student wandering
>> about Ingleborough and Swaledale
>>
>
> I spent three years at college in Leeds, with a fair number of weekends
> spent as a volunteer warden in the National Park. I never attempted the
> jump across the Strid, though!
>
> Best wishes,
> Tim B.
>

[Tim B]

> There is an English company, Wharfedale, that makes awesome sound
> equipment. Is it located in Wharfedale?

Yes, according to their website the company was founded in Ilkley (yes, the place with the Moor!).

Best wishes,
Tim B.

[thejazzmonger]

I met some of their guys at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas a
few years ago. I think I still have a hat with their logo around here
somewhere.

Nice people, and great loudspeakers.

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Tim B <dixonary (AT) siam (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

>
> There is an English company, Wharfedale, that makes awesome sound
>> equipment. Is it loIcated in Wharfedale?
>>
>
> Yes, according to their website the company was founded in Ilkley (yes,
> the place with the Moor!).
>
> Best wishes,
> Tim B.
>

[Nancy Shepherdson]

Thanks, all, for the congrats on the D0. I had a feeling.

This is too weird, though. My father's Yorkshireman ancestors came
from fairly close to both Bolton Abbey and Ilkey (and yes, I have been
there and heard people singing about "Ilkey Moor bat hat." Without a
hat, I understand, it gets pretty cold up there.) But I had never
heard of The Strid. I will have to ask a friend who has lived there
all his life.

That was fun, despite the delays (sorry) and I learned a lot.

Nancy

[Chuck]

Congratulations on the D0.

Nice result of a stand-in deal.

Chuck