[Dixonary] Round 3197: WERVE [Call for votes]

Equinoctial greetings to everyone, and with them a baker’s dozen of werve definitions to choose from. Please vote for two, in reply to this message, by the deadline, which is Wednesday 22 September at 22h00 CEST.
Â*Â*1. Weaving. A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
Â*Â*2. 1. To fish for eels by thrusting a baited hook into their lurking places. 2. To catch by werving.
Â*Â*3. To speak with diction that is unbalanced, slurred, and slow, as if drunk or intoxicated.
Â*Â*4. (also: werveling). A mysterious, malign half-human creature in Norse mythology.
Â*Â*5. Insurance. To accept a risk that is fundamentally unassessable.
Â*Â*6. A type of carved wainscoting in Victorian homes.
Â*Â*7. A ‘beast’ for riding on.
Â*Â*8. To genuflect before a deity [Ugaritic].
Â*Â*9. A pattern of narrow, horizontal stripes in clothing.
Â*10. A manoeuvre in curling that makes the shot of the opposing team more difficult.
Â*11. A layer or series of layers of sediment deposited in a body of still water in one year.
Â*12. Arch. A short rib connecting the bosses and intersections of the principal ribs of a vault.
Â*13. Werve or “spinach teethâ€� is the chalky sensation in your mouth after eating raw spinach due to the high oxalic acid in the plant.


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Paul Keating
Soustons, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France

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