Round 3044 SPARSILE Defs - Vote Now!

[Tim Lodge]

Here we have 12 defs of the word SPARSILE, only one of which came from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favoutites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is:

        09:00 UTC/GMT on Thursday 23rd January
        10:00 CET
         4:00 AM EST
         1:00 AM PST
        20:00 AEDT in Melbourne
        22:00 NZDT in New Zealand

New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.

--  Tim L

 *** SPARSILE ***

 1.  A picket fence.

 2.  Open to change.

 3.  Of a star: Not included in any constellation.

 4.  [Bot.] Having a hard sheath surrounding the stem.

 5.  In weaving, the cord or wire through which each thread is passed into the warp.

 6.  a rocky grass covered islet completely covered only at spring high-tides and storms.

 7.  _Naut._    (_var._ of  "Sparsail" q.v.,)   a sail with two sheets set at the stern of a dinghy.

 8.  To spring back, especially to resume a former position or structure after being stretched or compressed.

 9.  a form of rigging in which a sail's angle of attack can be changed by adjusting sheets attached to its spar.

10.  (Typog.) a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height.

11.  a class of goods manufactured from flexible materials, mainly used in 17th century shipping manifests and rarely seen thereafter.

12.  A sudden shift or slippage of the strata in a mine, often caused by the collapse of a supporting pillar; a mining incident or accident caused by this.

[Dave Cunningham]

4 and 11 to make sure I am wrong.

Dave

[Daniel B Widdis]

I believe #3.  And I got to the end without finding another one I believed, so #12.

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[Judy Madnick]

3 and 6...just because 

Judy Madnick

Albany, NY

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[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go for 2 and 8.

[Tim B]

2 and 4, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Tim Lodge]

John Barrs has voted by private email:

 

From: Johnb
Sent: 22 January 2020 10:15
To: Tim Lodge
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Round 3044 SPARSILE Defs - Vote Now!

 

#3 and #12 please

John

[Johnb - co.uk]

#3 and #12 please

I think that earlier I mistakenly voted to Tim rather than the group

JohnnyB

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[Debbie]

8 and 10 please

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[Efrem G Mallach]

Obviously, mine is the only credible definition, though that opinion does not appear to be widely shared.

Of the others, 2 and 11 get my votes.

Efrem

On Jan 21, 2020, at 5:34 PM, Tim Lodge <d...@timlodge.co.uk> wrote:

Here we have 12 defs of the word SPARSILE, only one of which came from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favoutites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is:

        09:00 UTC/GMT on Thursday 23rd January
        10:00 CET
         4:00 AM EST
         1:00 AM PST
        20:00 AEDT in Melbourne
        22:00 NZDT in New Zealand

New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.

--  Tim L

 *** SPARSILE ***

 2.  Open to change.

[Shani Naylor]

I'll vote 3 & 9.

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