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Old July 21st, 2022, 08:35 AM
Chowie
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Default Re: [Dixonary] Round 3268 HARMAN Defs - Vote Now!

I'm with Judy on this one. 4 and 5 please.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 6:35 AM Tim Lodge <dix (AT) timlodge (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

> Here we have 10 defs of the word HARMAN, only one of which comes from my
> dictionary. There are some great inventions here - I hope I've managed to
> get the text decorations as you wished them. Please vote for your two
> favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is:
>
> 09:00 UTC/GMT on Saturday 23rd July
> 10:00 BST in London
> 11:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
> 5:00 AM EDT in New York
> 2:00 AM PDT in California
> 21:00 NZST in New Zealand
>
>
> New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've
> voted.
>
> -- Tim L
>
> *** HARMAN ***
>
> 1. an obnoxious or despicable male.
>
> 2. Ox or horse drawn two-wheeled vehicle.
>
> 3. A style of swaddling blanket for newborns.
>
> 4. (Gr. Antiq.) A heavy-armed infantry soldier.
>
> 5. A smuggler (esp of sheep, from England to France).
>
> 6. a type of wooden saddle used by Spaniards in the 14th and 15th
> centuries.
>
> 7. 1. plural *harmans*, the stocks. 2. Short for *harman-beck* n.: A
> constable.
>
> 8. [rural Scot. obs.] a secondary officer of the law who can take
> evidence in cases of straying animals etc. Usually used negatively as in
> the phrase *dinna tell the harman* [from hardman]
>
> 9. Thought to be a threshing floor, known only from the medieval verse
> "Twenty turns ye harman round / Cavil, cavil all ye horses" found with an
> illustration of same in a copy of "The Owl and the Nightingale" (c. 1200,
> author unk.)
>
> 10. ermine [OF *(h)ermine* infl. by eME *harma* < OE *hearma* ‘dormouse,
> ferret, stoat, weasel’; remoter etymology disputed, but both poss.. ult.
> from PIE **kʹormōn* represented by OHG *harmo* and Lithuanian *szermu̇*]
>
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