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[Johnb - co.uk]

Here are 12 definitions brought to you at great expense of wit and wisdom by our esteemed panel of experts. Now your job is to decide which is the definition that was submitted by a dictionary

Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum or group message (in reply to this one), before the deadline..

 4:00 pm on Saturday, 25 May 2019 in the UK
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2:00 am the next day In parts of Oz

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1. slang for a standard bearer

 2. to trip on the edge of a carpet

 3. a naturally occurring yeast by-product

 4. [ME]  near to, or next to. (_Beowulf_)

 5. an embankment or dike, especially in South Asia

 6. the degree of curvature in the teeth of a sprocket wheel

 7. [Scot.] a low stone wall separating two fields or crofts

 8. [Ger.] a light, three-wheeled horse-drawn cart with a single seat

 9. a type of ground cover made from compressed mulch mixed with loam

10. [Obs.]  apparently: a component part used in the construction of a vessel

11. a chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump

12. a type of fastening for roof trusses, consisting of a metal plate with multiple triangular holes punched in it, forming spikes

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[Judy Madnick]

 6. the degree of curvature in the teeth of a sprocket wheel

 

12. a type of fastening for roof trusses, consisting of a metal plate with multiple triangular holes punched in it, forming spikes

 

Judy Madnick

Albany, NY

[Dave Cunningham]

7 for the Scots, and 10 for the weasel wording "apparently"

Dave

[Daniel Widdis]

7 and 10 for identical reasons as Dave

[Shani Naylor]

They all look wrong to me. I'll take 4 & 7.

 4. [ME]  near to, or next to. (_Beowulf_)

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[Tim Lodge]

I'll fall for 5 and 10.

5. an embankment or dike, especially in South Africa.

10. [Obs.] apparently: a component part used in the construction of a vessel

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[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go for 10 and 11.

[Debbie]

Before coffee, 7 and 8. 

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[Guerri Stevens]

I vote for 6 and 12.

On 5/23/2019 6:04 PM, Johnb - co.uk wrote:

  6. the degree of curvature in the teeth of a sprocket wheel

[Tim Lodge]

Oops - for South Afrca read South Asia.

[Efrem G Mallach]

I'll take the last two, 11 and 12. Some would say that means I read through all the definitions, but I make no such claim.

On May 23, 2019, at 6:04 PM, Johnb - co.uk <jo...@john-barrs.co.uk> wrote:

Here are 12 definitions brought to you at great expense of wit and wisdom by our esteemed panel of experts. Now your job is to decide which is the definition that was submitted by a dictionary

Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum or group message (in reply to this one), before the deadline..

 4:00 pm on Saturday, 25 May 2019 in the UK
11:00 am on        East Coast USA
8:00 am on        West Coast USA
2:00 am the next day In parts of Oz

New Players are welcome, even if you didn't submit a definition you may vote.

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JohnnyB

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[Tim B]

7 and 12, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Ryan McGill]

I'm a square: 3 & 9

 3. a naturally occurring yeast by-product