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Old December 30th, 2015, 02:22 AM
Daniel Widdis
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Default [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"]

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