Round 3583 HUISQUIL Defs - Vote Now!

[Tim Lodge]

Here we have 15 defs of the word HUISQUIL only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline:

17:00 UTC/GMT on Sunday 28th September
        18:00 BST in London
        19:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         1:00 PM EDT in New York  
        10:00 AM PDT in California
        05:00 NZST on Monday 29th in New Zealand

‏I reserve the right to close the round early if all players who have submitted a def have voted.

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

--  Tim L

*** HUISQUIL ***

 1.  A feather duster.

 2.  A whale-oil lamp.

 3.  _Sc._ Domestic coal.

 4.  A yellow-leafed, climbing vine.

 5.  A long phone menu process which seems to have no end.

 6.  A hat, similar to a bowler, worn by Bolivians of indigenous ancestry.

 7.  A traveling shaman of the Oltecs, responsible for overseeing ritual sacrifices and bloodletting.

 8.  A unit of measurement used in textile markets, roughly equal to the width of a standard loom shuttle.

 9.  The American brand name for a certain type of prescription medication that reduces the activity of the adrenal glands.

10.  A woodblock printing tool with stiff bristles arranged in a flat bundle used to create stippled or textured background effects.

11.  The pear-shaped fruit of a West Indian annual vine (_Sechium edule_) of the gourd family that is widely cultivated as a vegetable

12.  A collection of clubs in Hawaii specializing in the study of the state bird; the Nene; Branta sandvicensis (The Hawaiian Islands were called the Sandwich islands thus accounting for the specific name) [_hui,_ Hawaiian and Maori for a club or gathering + quill]

13.  A small, drought-resistant shrub native to the highland regions of Central America, characterized by its distinctive spiral-arranged leaves and thorny branches. The fibrous inner bark is traditionally woven into ceremonial cords used in marriage and coming-of-age rituals, where the plant's ability to thrive in harsh conditions symbolizes resilience and endurance through adversity.

[Hugo Kornelis]

Hi Tim,

I'll take the long and short of it: #13 and #1.

Cheers,
Hugo

Op 27-9-2025 om 12:33 schreef 'Tim Lodge' via Dixonary:

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[Chowie]

1 and 10 please

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[Paul Keating]

Few of these suggest a reason the peculiar shape of the word. Of those that do, I will avoid the etymological club sandwich (I think it overly Barrsesque), and vote for 6 and 7.

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Soustons, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France

[Judy Madnick]

4 and 13 today.

 

Judy Madnick

[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with 4 and 12.

--Mike

[Glenn Thomas Davis]

1 and 4.

—Glenn

. . .

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

—Plutarch

On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM 'France International/Mike Shefler' via Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I'll go with 4 and 12.

--Mike

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[Daniel B. Widdis]

I'll take the traveling shaman because I believe it and the bird clubs because I'm impressed at the author's creative etymology.

7 and 12

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[nancygoat]

Give me 6 and 7.

Nancy

[Tony Abell]

I'll guess 6 and 13:

> 6. A hat, similar to a bowler, worn by Bolivians of indigenous ancestry.

[Shani Naylor]

I'll vote for a couple of the less popular defs, 2 & 11.

 2.  A whale-oil lamp.

11.  The pear-shaped fruit of a West Indian annual vine (_Sechium edule_) of the gourd family that is widely cultivated as a vegetable.

[Eric Boxer]

I'll bookend and vote for 1 and 13.

-- Eric

[Efrem Mallach]

The vines, please: 4 and 11.

Efrem

On Sep 27, 2025, at 6:33 AM, 'Tim Lodge' via Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Here we have 15 defs of the word HUISQUIL only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline:

17:00 UTC/GMT on Sunday 28th September
        18:00 BST in London
        19:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         1:00 PM EDT in New York  
        10:00 AM PDT in California
        05:00 NZST on Monday 29th in New Zealand

‏I reserve the right to close the round early if all players who have submitted a def have voted.

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

--  Tim L

*** HUISQUIL ***

 4.  A yellow-leafed, climbing vine.

 

11.  The pear-shaped fruit of a West Indian annual vine (_Sechium edule_) of the gourd family that is widely cultivated as a vegetable