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Old July 26th, 2019, 07:48 AM
Dave Cunningham
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Default [Dixonary] Round 3001 GRAINEUR Defs - Vote Now!

3 and 13 as I canna see "graineur" being music-related at all.

Dave


On Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 9:28:33 AM UTC-4, Tim Lodge wrote:
>
> It's 36°C/97°F here and we haven't got aircon - not exactly conducive to
> working at a computer! Anyway we have 14 imaginative defs of the word
> GRAINEUR, only one of which came from my dictionary. Please vote for your
> two favourites by public reply to this message, before the deadline of:
>
>
> 11:00 on Saturday 27th July, which is
>
> 10:00 GMT
>
> 12:00 CET
>
> 6:00 AM EDT
>
> 3:00 AM PDT
>
> 22:00 NZST in New Zealand
>
>
> New players are welcome- just don't look after the word until after you've
> voted:
>
>
> -- Tim L
>
>
> *** GRAINEUR ***
>
>
> 1. a safe cracker.
>
> 2. a meat grinder.
>
> 3. a ceremonial trumpeter.
>
> 4. a producer of silkworm eggs.
>
> 5. a peddler of devotional literature.
>
> 6. an engraver who specializes in designing stock certificates.
>
> 7. (Obs.) a worker in a flour mill who ensured the wheat was free from
> foreign matter.
>
> 8. a person skilled in painting false grains on plaster, in imitation
> of expensive woods.
>
> 9. a measure of the amount a photographic negative can be enlarged
> before blurring results.
>
> 10. the person in charge of drying, grinding and mashing malt to make
> wort for Scotch whisky.
>
> 11. an instrument used by ploughmen for keeping their horses a little
> apart, that they may see forward between them to make a straight furrow.
>
> 12. a combination of live bacteria and yeasts that exist in a symbiotic
> matrix on a surface of a complex polysaccharide with a casein core from
> which kefir milk is produced.
>
> 13. one of a class of poet-musicians flourishing in northern France in
> the 1100s and 1200s, who composed chiefly narrative works, such as the
> chansons de geste, in langue d'oïl.
>
> 14. originally used to describe the mottled appearance of the lunar
> surface seen under sufficient resolution capable of determining small
> meteorite strike-pits; asteroid surfaces also have the same appearance and
> the term has been expanded to cover these.
>


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