[Dixonary] Round 3256 SPANGHEW voting time

Fellow players,

A baker's dozen definitions of SPANGHEW follow, one of which is correct. They have been edited for format consistency and are in ascending order by character count. Please vote for two by Reply to this message before the deadline, about 48 hours from now. If you realize now that you know what SPANGHEW means, then instead of voting publicly, please tell me by private email to emallach (AT) verizon (DOT) net <mailto:emallach (AT) verizon (DOT) net>.

1. [S. Boston Dial.] A hairball.

2. The art of clay whittling (as opposed to wood).

3. A board game resembling ludo, played in the Royal Navy.

4. A decorative fence that does not fully enclose or block access to an area.

5. A piece of wood split off from timber, esp. such a piece used in building a fire.

6. To divide a word via syllabification derived from a combination of Spanish and English.

7. [Scots, Nor. Eng.] To strike and cause to fly in the air, said esp. of frogs and toads.

8. An attempt to hit a golf-ball across a lake [loch] by causing it to skip along bouncing on the water surface.

9. A type of recovery crane used to right large overturned vehicles or retrieve any sort of vehicle from otherwise inaccessible areas.

10. A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.

11. A form of comic or satiric verse, consisting of two couplets of metrically irregular lines, containing the name of a well-known person.

12. A Pidgin, or compound, language, originating in the Philippines during the 17th century, and containing elements of Spanish, Chinese and Malay.

13. A component of medieval plate armor, consisting of an extra plate covering the front of the shoulder and the armpit, worn over the top of a pauldron.

Votes are due at 9 pm (2100 hours) Friday, June 3, in North American Eastern Daylight Time. According to timeanddate.com <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftimeanddate.com%2F&data=04%7C01% 7C%7C859625537d524d0c9ec808d9f15cfb48%7C17f1a87e2a 254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C63780620393420214 2%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQ IjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000& sdata=sNncvxr4%2BG5JOG4%2BhTWn63k%2BQO6n3nXJ%2BDm4 4vMDs5Q%3D&reserved=0>, that's:



and other times in other places. You might want to check any conversion that affects you, especially outside North America. That site's good, but nobody's perfect.

New players are welcome to vote, as are old friends who didn't submit a definition. The only requirement is that you not know what SPANGHEW means. Full rules can be found at http://www.dixonary.net/game-rules-and-advice/rules <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dixonary.net%2Fgame-rules-and-advice%2Frules&data=04%7C01%7C%7C859625537d524d0c9 ec808d9f15cfb48%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080 %7C0%7C0%7C637806203934202142%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZs b3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik 1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=i9OmskZn83IcJ0E5 3w5t3nbO5z%2FyEwyQp59RtnqR50E%3D&reserved=0>.

Vote on!

Efrem

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