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[Dixonary] Round 3044 SPARSILE Defs - Vote Now!
Here we have 12 defs of the word SPARSILE, only one of which came from my
dictionary. Please vote for your two favoutites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is: 09:00 UTC/GMT on Thursday 23rd January 10:00 CET 4:00 AM EST 1:00 AM PST 20:00 AEDT in Melbourne 22:00 NZDT in New Zealand New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted. -- Tim L *** SPARSILE *** 1. A picket fence. 2. Open to change. 3. Of a star: Not included in any constellation. 4. [Bot.] Having a hard sheath surrounding the stem. 5. In weaving, the cord or wire through which each thread is passed into the warp. 6. a rocky grass covered islet completely covered only at spring high-tides and storms. 7. _Naut._ (_var._ of "Sparsail" q.v.,) a sail with two sheets set at the stern of a dinghy. 8. To spring back, especially to resume a former position or structure after being stretched or compressed. 9. a form of rigging in which a sail's angle of attack can be changed by adjusting sheets attached to its spar. 10. (Typog.) a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. 11. a class of goods manufactured from flexible materials, mainly used in 17th century shipping manifests and rarely seen thereafter. 12. A sudden shift or slippage of the strata in a mine, often caused by the collapse of a supporting pillar; a mining incident or accident caused by this. -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/di...oglegroups.com. |