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[Dixonary] Round 3085 QUINSELL Defs - Vote Now!
Here we have 13 imaginative defs of the word QUINSELL, only one of which
comes from my dictionary. Please vote for your two favoutites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is: 10:00 BST on Saturday 4th July, which is: 11:00 CET 09:00 GMT/UTC 5:00 AM EDT 2:00 AM PDT 21:00 NZST in New Zealand New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted. -- Tim L *** QUINSELL *** 1. a small light boat. 2. blackcurrant berries. 3. [Printing] 3 point type. 4. [Obs. Rare] a rein for a horse. 5. a berry that grows in a cluster of five. 6. [Bot.] a bud on a flower that fails to bloom. 7. a province of Ireland [<NF, tr. Ir. _cúige_ ‘fifth part, province’] 8. one who aids the enemy; a puppet leader supported by foreign power. 9. decorative treatment of leather with colours and acids to produce a lace-like effect. 10. a drum attached to the wheel in old sailing ships, around which the rudder cables were wound. 11. (Obs., var. QUINSEL), a measure of dry produce equivalent to five bushels, used primarily for grains. 12. a low-growing European woodland plant with small leaves in clusters of five, having traditional medical and culinary uses. 13. a flensing tool consisting of two contoured blades which flare outward from the cutting surface with perpendicular handles at both ends. 14. the date January 0 in an annual ephemeris. It keeps the date in the year for which the ephemeris was published, thus avoiding any reference to the previous year, even though it is the same day as December 31 of the previous year. -- 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. |
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