Ronund 3180 TURNDUN Results

[Tim Lodge]

Five of you guessed that a TURNDUN is the fish-shaped bull-roarer, from the Australian Aboriginal language of the Kurnai tribe in Gippsland. Shani Naylor was one of those, getting an unnatural 5, while Efrem Mallach and Mike Shefler were the real winners, both with natural 4s.

Over to you, Shani.

--  Tim L

*** TURNDUN ***

1.  [Scots] A traffic roundabout.              

Submitter: Dave Cunningham Votes: 8 & 15 Score: 1  + *2* + 0  = 3 *
Voted for by: Ryan McGill              

 2.  an early rock tumbler, driven by steam             
Submitter: Ryan McGill Votes: 1 & 13 Score: 0  + 0 + 0  = 0  
Voted for by: Nobody               

 3.  an almost horizontal entrance to a mine.            
Submitter: Debbie Embler Votes: 8 & 11 Score: 3  + 0 + 0  = 3  
Voted for by: Mike Shefler, Johnny Barrs, Tony Abell          

 4.  [Scot.] Free conversation; friendly chat.             
Submitter: Dan Widdis Votes: 9 & 15 Score: 0  + *2* + 0  = 2 *
Voted for by: Nobody               

 5.  [Tibetan] a simple roadside shrine or cairn.             
Submitter: Alan Mallach Votes: 6 & 11 Score: 1  + 0 + 0  = 1  
Voted for by: Judy Madnick              

 6.  [Gaul] a hastily erected fortification atop a hill.           
Submitter: Mike Shefler Votes: 3 & 14 Score: 4  + 0 + 0  = 4  
Voted for by: Alan Mallach, Deborah Fein, Judy Madnick, Tim Bourne       

 7.  [Shortlived and now obsolete] trousers without turnups.         
Submitter: Johnny Barrs Votes: 3 & 15 Score: 1  + *2* + 0  = 3 *
Voted for by: Efrem Mallach              

 8.  a gear on 19th century warships for rotating their cannons.         
Submitter: Deborah Fein Votes: 6 & 14 Score: 2  + 0 + 0  = 2  
Voted for by: Dave Cunningham, Debbie Embler            

 9.  ram; pile-driver; striking face of steam hammer or jackhammer.        
Submitter: Judy Madnick Votes: 5 & 6 Score: 3  + 0 + 0  = 3  
Voted for by: Dan Widdis, Nancy Shepherdson, Tim Bourne         

10.  a stylized German eagle with spread wings, often used for tattoos.      
Submitter: Nancy Shepherdson Votes: 9 & 14 Score: 1  + 0 + 0  = 1  
Voted for by: Efrem Mallach              

11.  an iron used to hold stones together when building a dry stone wall.      
Submitter: Shani Naylor Votes: 12 & 15 Score: 3  + *2* + 0  = 5 *
Voted for by: Debbie Embler, Alan Mallach, Paul Keating         

12.  a small mainly brown wader, _Arenaria tolca_, of the turnstone family.      
Submitter: Tim Bourne Votes: 6 & 9 Score: 1  + 0 + 0  = 1  
Voted for by: Shani Naylor              

13.  money paid to a cooper who attends on the quays to mend casks, also to open them for samples.
Submitter: Paul Keating Votes: 11 & 14 Score: 1  + 0 + 0  = 1  
Voted for by: Ryan McGill              

14.  an obsolete English measure of dry volume, mostly used for coal, typically 32-36 bushels (about 1.1-1.2 cubic meters).
Submitter: Efrem Mallach Votes: 7 & 10 Score: 4  + 0 + 0  = 4  
Voted for by: Mike Shefler, Deborah Fein, Nancy Shepherdson, Paul Keating     

15.  a flattish, fish-shaped piece of wood fastened by one end to a thong, which when whirled round makes a peculiar penetrating roaring sound; a bull-roarer.
Submitter:  OED  Votes: - & - Score: 5  + 0 + 0  = D5  
Voted for by: Dave Cunningham, Dan Widdis, Johnny Barrs, Shani Naylor, Tony Abell                
No Def: Tony Abell Votes: 3 & 15 Score: 0 + *2* + 0  = 2 *