RE: [Dixonary] RE: DIXONARY - Round 3079 DIMBER - TIME TO VOTE

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amal...@comcast.net

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Jun 9, 2020, 3:45:13 PM6/9/20
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All – Here are 15 definitions of the word dimber. One comes from a dictionary, and the others from folks’ fertile imaginations. That does not mean that they’re wrong, of course, but perhaps not correct.

 

  1. The allowance made in the dimensions of a machine component such as a turbine blade in a jet engine to compensate for expansion at operating temperatures.

 

  1. A thimble

 

  1. [Royal Navy slang] an incompetent deck officer.

 

  1. A large, loosely-knitted scarf

 

  1. [Obs.] a mediaeval term for an effeminate man [often combined with 'damber' as "a dimber-damber cantor" Chaucer The Summoner's Tale]

 

  1. Of or relating to amoral or conniving political principles.

 

  1. A guide rail on a mountain trail.

  2. Archaic To bother; distress.

 

  1. Pretty; as in a dimber cove, a pretty fellow. 

 

  1. A small hollow metal cone on the end of a handle, used to extinguish a candle by smothering the flame.

 

  1. A streak of white on a horse's face. dialect.

 

  1. A soft leather pad placed inside a shoe to ease the pressure on a tender spot. 

 

  1. A welding clamp.

 

  1. A small deer of the Asiatic forest

 

  1. To follow a winding or circuitous path.

 

Please let me have your votes by no later than 9AM Eastern Daylight Time Thursday June 11.

 

Best,

 

Alan

Judy Madnick

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Jun 9, 2020, 3:55:55 PM6/9/20
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Be careful if you vote as I do by copying and pasting the definitions I like and/or first deleting the definitions I don't like. The definition numbers may change depending on how you handle this. Automatic numbering does this.
 
Starting over so the numbers are back in place:
 
8 and 15 for me today.
 
Judy Madnick
 
 
  1. The allowance made in the dimensions of a machine component such as a turbine blade in a jet engine to compensate for expansion at operating temperatures.

 

  1. A thimble

 

  1. [Royal Navy slang] an incompetent deck officer.

 

  1. A large, loosely-knitted scarf

 

  1. [Obs.] a mediaeval term for an effeminate man [often combined with 'damber' as "a dimber-damber cantor" Chaucer The Summoner's Tale]

 

  1. Of or relating to amoral or conniving political principles.

 

  1. A guide rail on a mountain trail.

  2. Archaic To bother; distress.

 

  1. Pretty; as in a dimber cove, a pretty fellow. 

 

  1. A small hollow metal cone on the end of a handle, used to extinguish a candle by smothering the flame.

 

  1. A streak of white on a horse's face. dialect.

 

  1. A soft leather pad placed inside a shoe to ease the pressure on a tender spot. 

 

  1. A welding clamp.

 

  1. A small deer of the Asiatic forest

 

  1. To follow a winding or circuitous path.

 

Please let me have your votes by no later than 9AM Eastern Daylight Time Thursday June 11.

 

Best,

 

Alan

 

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Tim B

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Jun 9, 2020, 4:57:11 PM6/9/20
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8 and 15, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

Shani Naylor

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Jun 9, 2020, 5:13:01 PM6/9/20
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2 & 11 for me. 



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France International/Mike Shefler

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Jun 9, 2020, 5:16:04 PM6/9/20
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I'll go with 5 and 8.

Dave Cunningham

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Jun 9, 2020, 5:53:48 PM6/9/20
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1 and 12 . I had thunk I sent in a def, but danged if I am sure

Dave


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Tim Lodge

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Jun 9, 2020, 6:07:52 PM6/9/20
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I'll follow the trails and paths:  7 and 15.

 7.  A guide rail on a mountain trail.

15.  To follow a winding or circuitous path.

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Debbie

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Jun 9, 2020, 7:04:53 PM6/9/20
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10 and 11 please

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Daniel B Widdis

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Jun 9, 2020, 7:24:58 PM6/9/20
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I’ll take Chaucer and the Beatles.

5 and 15.

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amal...@comcast.net

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Jun 9, 2020, 8:29:22 PM6/9/20
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Dave – I don’t see anything, but if you have something in your sent folder let me know.

Alan

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nancygoat

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Jun 9, 2020, 8:49:34 PM6/9/20
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I'll take Dr. Who and another one:
4 and 10

Nancy

Efrem G Mallach

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Jun 9, 2020, 9:51:26 PM6/9/20
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2 and 13, please.

Efrem

On Jun 9, 2020, at 3:45 PM, <amal...@comcast.net> <amal...@comcast.net> wrote:

All – Here are 15 definitions of the word dimber. One comes from a dictionary, and the others from folks’ fertile imaginations. That does not mean that they’re wrong, of course, but perhaps not correct. 
  
  1. A thimble
 
 
  1. A welding clamp.

Johnb - co.uk

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Jun 10, 2020, 4:44:11 AM6/10/20
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Dr Who for me too = #4 and #9

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Paul Keating

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Jun 10, 2020, 8:48:46 AM6/10/20
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5 & 9 for me.

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Ryan McGill

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Jun 10, 2020, 6:23:40 PM6/10/20
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1 & 12 will do just fine.

amal...@comcast.net

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Jun 10, 2020, 8:53:15 PM6/10/20
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Two people who submitted defs have yet to vote, along with a couple who didn’t. Deadline 12 hours from now 9AM TH Eastern time.

Alan

Tony Abell

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Jun 10, 2020, 9:48:01 PM6/10/20
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I'll follow suit with 5 and 8:

> 5. [Obs.] a mediaeval term for an effeminate man [often combined with
> 'damber' as "a dimber-damber cantor" Chaucer The Summoner's Tale]


> 8. Archaic To bother; distress.

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