Re: [Dixonary] Round 3252: Vote for SHAKESPEARE-NAVELS

3 and 10, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

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3 & 10 for me too.

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#6 and #7 for no reason

*JohnnyB*

On Tue, 17 May 2022 at 02:42, Daniel B Widdis <widdis (AT) dixonary (DOT) net> wrote:

> Each extension collected one additional submission, giving you all a total
> of ten candidates for your votes.
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> I’ll set the voting deadline in 38 hours at 8 am PDT on Wednesday, May
> 17. That’s 11am EDT, 4 pm BST at the Greenwich Meridian and elsewhere in
> the UK, 5pm CEST at la Méridienne de France and in most of Europe, and in
> the wee hours of Thursday morning at 1 am AEST in Melbourne and 3 am NZST
> in Auckland.
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> *** SHAKESPEARE-NAVELS ***
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> 1. *[Mil. slang]* Indentations in a cannonball to increase its range by
> creating a thin layer of turbulence that reduces drag. (Origin unk., prob..
> 19c. UK)
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> 2. Small pits or depressions typical of the area around Stratford-on-Avon
> and now thought to be the result of flint extraction in Neolithic times.
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> 3. Doggerel verse, based on Shakespearean sonnets, popular in 19th century
> vaudeville.
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> 4. the central themes of Shakespeare's writings.
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> 5. Bad poetry.
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> 6. A type of backless sandal.
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> 7. A long-pointed, turned-down collar
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> 8. Shakespeare's spelling of *nave* - hence the nave of a church
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> 9. Believed to be the orb of all conscious inspiration and artistic
> expression.
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> 10. common Shakespeare misquotes, e.g., "gilding the lily" (actual quote:
> "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily...")
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