Round 3051 results

[Mike Shefler]

Nancy Shepherdson, the only player to guess the real def, wins the next deal with 8, while Dave Cunningham with 7 is the real winner.

1.  a random, miscellaneous mixture.

  Submitter: Abell                    Votes: 4 & 13       0 + 1 =   1

  Voted for by: Widdis

2.  [Obs.] a malingerer (named after Midshipman Howskelly, the infamous

malingerer from the James Fenimore Cooper novella of the same name).          

  Submitter: Naylor                   Votes: 4 & 12       0 + 1 =   1

  Voted for by: Embler

3.  a signal of fire that calls comrades to arms in a time of trouble.

  Submitter: Embler                   Votes: 2 & 9        0 + 1 =   1

  Voted for by: Mcgill

4.  [Scot.] a peat scuttle.

  Submitter: Cunningham               Votes: 9 & 12       0 + 7 =   7

  Voted for by: Abell; Naylor; Carson; Madnick; Mallach; Widdis; Lodge

5.  a metal pot or kettle used in camp cooking.

  Submitter: Carson                   Votes: 4 & 9        0 + 2 =   2

  Voted for by: Dixon; Lodge

6.  a utensil for baling water out of a boat.

  Submitter: Dictionary                Vote: N/A                   D1

  Voted for by: Shepherdson

7.  a term originating in Vaudeville for a category of jokes and brief

sketches concerning a missing friend (e.g. "How's Kelly? "Ach, he was         

so snockered last night that he never made it home. Walked straight           

to the jailhouse.")                                                           

  Submitter: Dixon                    Votes: 5 & 9        0 + 0 =   0

  Voted for by:                                                          

8.  any of various succulent plants having leaves arranged in rosettes

with pinkish flowers and often cultivated as garden plants that have          

traditionally been grown on roofs in Europe.                                  

  Submitter: Madnick                  Votes: 4 & 9        0 + 1 =   1

  Voted for by: Mcgill

9.  [Yorks. sl., Obs.] a device for controlling the flow of liquid from a

pipe to the outside of a building by opening or closing an orifice.           

  Submitter: Shepherdson              Votes: *6* & 10     2 + 6 =   8

  Voted for by: Embler; Cunningham; Carson; Dixon; Madnick; Mallach

10.  [Pa. Dutch] warm, inviting, of a home; from Ger. haus, home; and

kelig, cuddly.                                                                

  Submitter: Mallach                  Votes: 4 & 9        0 + 1 =   1

  Voted for by: Shepherdson

11.  [Obs.] a kind of dulcimer.

  Submitter: Widdis                   Votes: 1 & 4        0 + 1 =   1

  Voted for by: Bourne

12.  {Scot.] easily provoked to anger or resentment; prone to anger.

  Submitter: Lodge                    Votes: 4 & 5        0 + 4 =   4

  Voted for by: Naylor; Cunningham; Bourne; Barrs

13.  a small unpopulated island or large rock.

  Submitter: Bourne                   Votes: 11 & 12      0 + 2 =   2

  Voted for by: Abell; Barrs

     No def: Barrs                    Votes: 12 & 13 2DP + 0 + 0 =   2

     No def: Mcgill                   Votes: 3 & 8        0 + 0 =   0