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RE: [Dixonary] DIXONARY - Round 3079 DIMBER - TIME TO VOTE
All – Here are 15 definitions of the word dimber. One comes from a dictionary, and the others from folks’ fertile imaginations. That does not mean that they’re wrong, of course, but perhaps not correct..
1. The allowance made in the dimensions of a machine component such as a turbine blade in a jet engine to compensate for expansion at operating temperatures. 2. A thimble 3. [Royal Navy slang] an incompetent deck officer. 4. A large, loosely-knitted scarf 5. [Obs.] a mediaeval term for an effeminate man [often combined with 'damber' as "a dimber-damber cantor" Chaucer The Summoner's Tale] 6. Of or relating to amoral or conniving political principles. 7. A guide rail on a mountain trail. 8. Archaic To bother; distress. 9. Pretty; as in a dimber cove, a pretty fellow. 10. A small hollow metal cone on the end of a handle, used to extinguish a candle by smothering the flame. 11. A streak of white on a horse's face. dialect. 12. A soft leather pad placed inside a shoe to ease the pressure on a tender spot. 13. A welding clamp. 14. A small deer of the Asiatic forest 15. To follow a winding or circuitous path. Please let me have your votes by no later than 9AM Eastern Daylight Time Thursday June 11. Best, Alan -- 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...%40comcast.net. |
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