Round 3001 GRAINEUR Defs - Vote Now!

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Tim Lodge

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Jul 25, 2019, 9:28:33 AM7/25/19
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It's 36°C/97°F here and we haven't got aircon - not exactly conducive to working at a computer!  Anyway we have 14 imaginative defs of the word GRAINEUR, only one of which came from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message, before the deadline of:


11:00 on Saturday 27th July, which is

10:00 GMT

12:00 CET

 6:00 AM EDT

 3:00 AM PDT

22:00 NZST in New Zealand


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


--  Tim L


 *** GRAINEUR ***


 1.  a safe cracker.

 2.  a meat grinder.

 3.  a ceremonial trumpeter.

 4.  a producer of silkworm eggs.

 5.  a peddler of devotional literature.

 6.  an engraver who specializes in designing stock certificates.

 7.  (Obs.) a worker in a flour mill who ensured the wheat was free from foreign matter.

 8.  a person skilled in painting false grains on plaster, in imitation of expensive woods.

 9.  a measure of the amount a photographic negative can be enlarged before blurring results.

10.  the person in charge of drying, grinding and mashing malt to make wort for Scotch whisky.

11.  an instrument used by ploughmen for keeping their horses a little apart, that they may see forward between them to make a straight furrow.

12.  a combination of live bacteria and yeasts that exist in a symbiotic matrix on a surface of a complex polysaccharide with a casein core from which kefir milk is produced. 

13.  one of a class of poet-musicians flourishing in northern France in the 1100s and 1200s, who composed chiefly narrative works, such as the chansons de geste, in langue d'oïl.

14.  originally used to describe the mottled appearance of the lunar surface seen under sufficient resolution capable of determining small meteorite strike-pits; asteroid surfaces also have the same appearance and the term has been expanded to cover these.

Tim Lodge

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Jul 25, 2019, 9:50:08 AM7/25/19
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Judy Madnick has voted by email for 1 and 2.

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From: Judy Madnick [mailto:******@gmail.com]
Sent: 25 July 2019 14:34
To: Tim Lodge
Subject: RE: [Dixonary] Round 3001 GRAINEUR Defs - Vote Now!

 

Hope you're able to stay cool -- somehow!

 

Since I have no clue what the correct definition may be, I'll take 1 and 2, which sound about as incorrect as any!

 

Judy Madnick

Albany, NY

 

Judy Madnick

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Jul 25, 2019, 9:55:12 AM7/25/19
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Sorry. As I've said repeatedly, old habits die hard.
 
Judy
 

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Tim B

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Jul 25, 2019, 11:27:28 AM7/25/19
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8 and 13, please.

And this is a good time to mention that I'll probably not be around much for the next couple of
weeks, as we'll be out of reach of wifi and phone signal most of the time.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

France International/Mike Shefler

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Jul 25, 2019, 11:38:36 AM7/25/19
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I'll go for 9 and 13.

Debbie

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Jul 25, 2019, 11:54:13 AM7/25/19
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6 and 8 please

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 11:38 AM France International/Mike Shefler <sta...@salsgiver.com> wrote:
I'll go for 9 and 13.

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Hugo Kornelis

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Jul 25, 2019, 11:59:26 AM7/25/19
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Hi Tim!

I'll admit, I am totally clueless. After eliminating the impossible, I was left with nothing. After doing it again, with a lower threshold, Had reduced the list to 14 candidates

Out of these, I'll go with #4 and 11.

Cheers,
Hugo

Op 25-7-2019 om 15:28 schreef Tim Lodge:
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Shani Naylor

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Jul 25, 2019, 5:01:18 PM7/25/19
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Hugo - have you ever thought of being a stand-up comedian?



Shani Naylor

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Jul 25, 2019, 5:28:44 PM7/25/19
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I'll vote 10 & 14.



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Hugo Kornelis

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Jul 25, 2019, 6:18:26 PM7/25/19
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Heh!

No, not really. But I do give technical presentations, and I try to use some of my dry humor to keep the audience from falling asleep.
Close enough?

Op 25-7-2019 om 23:01 schreef Shani Naylor:

Daniel B. Widdis

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Jul 25, 2019, 6:22:34 PM7/25/19
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I still think handling the occasional private vote is a better solution than public defs or DQs. :)

If I ever deal again, I'll set the reply-to for the call for votes!

nancygoat

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Jul 26, 2019, 12:23:57 AM7/26/19
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I'll take 5 and 9 this time.

Nancy


Daniel Widdis

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Jul 26, 2019, 3:43:10 AM7/26/19
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7 and 10 were fake defs I considered writing, but didn’t do nearly as well as those authors

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Dave Cunningham

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Jul 26, 2019, 8:48:28 AM7/26/19
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3 and 13 as I canna see "graineur" being music-related at all.

Dave

Guerri Stevens

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Jul 26, 2019, 11:03:12 AM7/26/19
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I vote for 9 and 13.

On 7/25/2019 9:28 AM, Tim Lodge wrote:
9.  a measure of the amount a photographic negative can be enlarged before blurring results.

Efrem G Mallach

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Jul 26, 2019, 11:14:41 AM7/26/19
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Mine is the only plausible one, though unfortunately few players share that opinion. Of the rest, I'll pick 8 and 13. If 13 is fake, its composer deserves a point for correct use of an accent tréma.

Efrem

On Jul 25, 2019, at 9:28 AM, Tim Lodge <d...@timlodge.co.uk> wrote:

It's 36°C/97°F here and we haven't got aircon - not exactly conducive to working at a computer!  Anyway we have 14 imaginative defs of the word GRAINEUR, only one of which came from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message, before the deadline of:


11:00 on Saturday 27th July, which is

10:00 GMT

12:00 CET

 6:00 AM EDT

 3:00 AM PDT

22:00 NZST in New Zealand


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


--  Tim L


 *** GRAINEUR ***


 8.  a person skilled in painting false grains on plaster, in imitation of expensive woods.


Ryan McGill

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Jul 26, 2019, 9:18:42 PM7/26/19
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7 & 12

 7.  (Obs.) a worker in a flour mill who ensured the wheat was free from foreign matter.
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