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[Dixonary] Round 2856 results
Tim Lodge is the run-away winner of this round with 8 natural points.
The English Dialect Dictionary nocks up another D0. Great source of words. 1. an Assyrian rock carving. Submitter: Mallach Votes: 5 & 10 0 + 1 = 1 Voted for by: Bourne 2. a kind of precious stone credited with magical properties. Submitter: Naylor Votes: 5 & 8 0 + 1 = 1 Voted for by: Abell 3. former abbreviation for "megahertz," eventually simplified to "mgh." Submitter: Madnick Votes: 5 & 10 0 + 0 = 0 Voted for by: 4. the big toe. Submitter: EDD Vote: N/A D0 Voted for by: 5. [Sc.] in whisky production, the product of the first coarse grinding of the malt to prepare it for fermentation. Submitter: Lodge Votes: 6 & 10 0 + 8 = 8 Voted for by: Mallach; Naylor; Madnick; Cunningham; Hale; Carson; Barrs Stevens 6. a linn, waterfall or source of a stream. Submitter: Cunningham Votes: 5 & 8 0 + 1 = 1 Voted for by: Lodge 7. a counting marker on a Sumerian abacus. Submitter: Hale Votes: 5 & 9 0 + 1 = 1 Voted for by: Bourne 8. a low-lying meadow in a river valley. Submitter: Carson Votes: 5 & 9 0 + 2 = 2 Voted for by: Naylor; Cunningham 9. one of several kinds of sand fly. Submitter: Bourne Votes: 1 & 7 0 + 4 = 4 Voted for by: Hale; Carson; Barrs; Abell 10. [Arabic] a junk yard. [a generalised version of _megh-car_ which was a vast heap of British army officers' cars totally unsuited to desert conditions which were abandoned near Basra after being bulldozed into a heap by the BEF in 1915] Submitter: Barrs Votes: 5 & 9 0 + 4 = 4 Voted for by: Mallach; Madnick; Lodge; Stevens No def: Stevens Votes: 5 & 10 2DP + 0 + 0 = 2 No def: Abell Votes: 2 & 9 0 + 0 = 0 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dixonary" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dixonary+unsubscribe (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. |
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