Rnd 3095 - KHADDAR -- The Defs

[Christopher Carson]

There are a total of 12 definitions for KHADDAR. Please vote for two, by public reply to this message, before deadline, which is 8:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, August 12, 2020, or 5:00 AM PDT .

 

1. the path around the ka’ha in Mecca, traversed by Muslim

    pilgrims during a hajj, corresponding to the path around

    God’s throne followed by the angels.

2. [now Obs] a timber stockade where newly caught wild

    elephants were initially trained. [see

    'Toomai of the Elephants' in Jungle Book by R Kipling]

3. a coarse homespun cloth made in India.

4. (Arab.) A pungent condiment consisting of fish or

    prawns which have been left to rot and then salted and

    dried.

5. a plant related to turmeric with an aromatic rhizome

    from which can be made substances for medicine, perfumery

    and dyeing.

6. a senior officer in the pre-revolutionary Persian army.

7. a packing to prevent percolation of water down the bore

    hole of an Artesian well, consisting of a bag encircling

    the tubing and filled with flax seed, which swells when wet

    and fills the space between the tubing and the sides of the

    hole.

8. [Arab] a mare.

9. fermented goat milk.

10. an Islamic religious school.

11. an elementary school for Jewish children, teaching

    basic Judaism and Hebrew.

12. a defensive entrance arrangement to a fort in South

    Asia, consisting of a steep uphill zigzag road with usually

    seven strongly-built gatehouses at intervals.

 

[Daniel B Widdis]

9, imagining it’s a distant cousin of cheddar, and 4 because it’s the other food-related def.

[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with 7 and 12.

[Judy Madnick]

For lack of a better idea, I'l vote for 1 and 12.

  

Judy Madnick

Albany, NY

 

[France International/Mike Shefler]

[Tim B]

3 and 8, please.

This may be a good time to mention that I shall be largely uncommunicative from 15th until 29th, as
there is only very poor wifi where we'll be staying.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Debbie]

4 and 6 please

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[Ryan McGill]

1 & 10 will do.

[Tim Lodge]

1 and 2, please - I did read them all.

1. the path around the ka’ha in Mecca, traversed by Muslim pilgrims during a hajj, corresponding to the path around God’s throne followed by the angels.

2. [now Obs] a timber stockade where newly caught wild elephants were initially trained. [see 'Toomai of the Elephants' in Jungle Book by R Kipling]

--  Tim L

[Shani Naylor]

2 & 3 for me. 

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[nancygoat]

I'll take 6 and 9.

Nancy

[Tony Abell]

Sounds vaguely Islamic, so 1 and 10:

> 1. the path around the ka'ha in Mecca, traversed by Muslim
> pilgrims during a hajj, corresponding to the path around
> God's throne followed by the angels.

[Dave Cunningham]

vox pop - 1 and 10

Dave