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[Dixonary] Round 2671: Vote for BARLA-FUMBLE
Nineteen definitions for BARLA-FUMBLE are presented below, one of which
came from a respected dictionary. Please vote for two, by public reply to this message, before the deadline of 9am PST on Thursday, December 31, 2015, or Noon EST, about 33 hours away. That's 5pm GMT/UTC in the UK, 6pm CET in the Netherlands, and early in the New Year at 4am AEDT in Melbourne and 6am NZDT in Wellington, as shown here <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=BARLA-FUMBLE+Voting+Deadline&iso=20151231T17&p1=1440>. 1. a tall, tufted wild grass, /Hordeum cooperii/, of the US upper Midwest and southern Canada; a frequent pasture invader, it is mildly toxic to livestock. Also called "gripeweed". 2. Scottish English; used dismissively in English by speakers of Scottish Gaelic; [ < Gael. Béarla na hAlban, 'Scottish English'] 3. a type of plant, growing to about a foot in height when mature, that produces tiny burrs on multiform heads. 4. A Jamaican dessert consisting of coconut, mango, breadfruit, Jamaican plums and whipped cream. 5. /sl./ a jumble of printers type, sometimes used for greeking. (see /pi/ and /greeking/) 6. to rub grain on stretched leather as a way of softening the texture 7. A call for a truce by one who has fallen in wrestling or play 8. [Scot.] a savory Christmas pudding with a barley base 9. A small supporting beam or bar. 10. to becloud; to obscure 11. nonsense, gobbledegook. 12. an early form of conveyor for building hay ricks. 13. a confection of honeycomb toffee made with barley water 14. The accidental utterance of a different word from the one intended. 15. In field hockey, a shot played with the reverse (rounded) end of the hockey stick 16. failure to catch a team-mate's throw in a dwarf-tossing contest (<Turk. bärlad = dwarf). 17. Slight movement of a cartoon character or object, indicated by parenthesis-shaped lines on both sides. 18. In lacrosse, a maneuver in which a player passes the ball to his own goalie who then passes it to another team member. 19. A gin based cocktail popular during the British Raj period in India [from a corruption of the Hindi phrase meaning "for Queen and country"] -- 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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