Round 3220 results

[Mike Shefler]

Efrem Mallach is the next dealer with a natural 5. Debby Embler is the real winner with an unnatural 5.

1.  [Orkney & Shetland Islands] a clergyman.
  Submitter: Disctionary               Vote: N/A                   D4
  Submitter: Barrs                    Votes: [1*] & 11    0 + 3 =   3
  Voted for by: Barrs; Embler; Shepherdson; Abell

2.  [Linguistics] collective term for letters of the Glagolitic and early
Cyrillic alphabets that are not part of the Civil Script introduced          
by Peter the Great in 1708.                                                  
  Submitter: Emallach                 Votes: 3 & 12       0 + 5 =   5
  Voted for by: Keating; Bourne; Embler; Widdis; Leckenby

3.  a circular burial mound constructed over a pit grave and often
containing grave vessels, weapons, and the bodies of horses as well          
as a single human body; originally in use in the Russian Steppes but          
later spreading into eastern, central, and northern Europe in the            
third millennium b.c.                                                        
  Submitter: Naylor                   Votes: 9 & 11       0 + 3 =   3
  Voted for by: Emallach; Widdis; Madnick

4.  a long narrow ridge or mound of sand or gravel deposited by a stream
flowing beneath a glacier.                                                    
  Submitter: Keating                  Votes: 2 & 12       0 + 1 =   1
  Voted for by: Amallach

5.  [Tucano]a rope bridge.
  Submitter: Bourne                   Votes: 2 & 7        0 + 0 =   0
  Voted for by:                                                          

6.  Russian pastry made with butter, cocoa, cognac, and chopped nuts.
  Submitter: Druce                    Votes: 7 & 11       0 + 3 =   3
  Voted for by: Shepherdson; Lodge; Leckenby

7.  one of the five archaic human groups, the Neandertal being the most
well known of the five, as published in the Proceedings of the                
National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).                                          
  Submitter: Embler                   Votes: *1* & 2      2 + 3 =   5
  Voted for by: Bourne; Druce; Madnick

8.  [Arch.] a floor which serves also as a roof, as of a belfry or
balcony.                                                                      
  Submitter: Widdis                   Votes: 2 & 3        0 + 0 =   0
  Voted for by:                                                          

9.  a modern serif typeface involving shadowing to add dimension.
  Submitter: Shepherdson              Votes: *1* & 6      2 + 2 =   4
  Voted for by: Naylor; Amallach

10.  anticipating and answering an opponent's objections.
  Submitter: Madnick                  Votes: 3 & 7        0 + 1 =   1
  Voted for by: Lodge

11.  The steppe Lemming _Lagurus lagurus_, found in Russia and Ukraine.
  Submitter: Lodge                    Votes: 6 & 10       0 + 4 =   4
  Voted for by: Barrs; Naylor; Druce; Abell

12.  a pseudo–Eastern European word for oppression, coined by
Anti-Communists in the US in 1928.                                            
  Submitter: Leckenby                 Votes: 2 & 6        0 + 2 =   2
  Voted for by: Emallach; Keating

     No def: Amallach                 Votes: 4 & 9  2DP + 0 + 0 =   2

     No def: Abell                    Votes: *1* & 11     2 + 0 =   2

[Efrem G Mallach]

Thanks, I think. I eliminated the correct definition early because it was too obviously an invention derived from "priest." Just goes to show.

Heading out the door now, unfortunately. New word later this afternoon, U.S. eastern time.

Efrem

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