Rnd 3182 LYMER - Voting time

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Johnb - co.uk

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Jul 15, 2021, 3:59:02 PM7/15/21
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Below are the results of your fertile minds  plus a dictionary definition

vote for 2 of the offerings before midday BST Saturday 17th - don't look it up before you vote and if anyone now knows what it means then please notify me of your DQ
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1              A game hunter who uses the aid of trained wolves

2              A distinctive form of the brown trout (Salmo trutta) found in certain lakes in Ireland and Scotland, having a thickened stomach adapted to a diet rich in snails.

3              Any of a number of stout poles pushed into the bed of a river and used to retain the paddles of a flash weir.

4              In the Danelaw: a person who stands surety for the purchase or transfer of land; a person who stands surety for the lawful conduct of another person.

5              [Obs.] or LIMER: was a kind of dog, a scent hound, used on a leash in medieval times to find large game before it was hunted down by the pack.

6              One of two molecules that differ in the spatial arrangement of atoms or groups surrounding only one of two or more chiral atoms in the structure.

7              A grainer specialising in marble or similar finishes on furniture.

8              An object of derision; a laughing-stock.

9              A British sailor.

10              A railing or trellis upon which fruit trees or shrubs are trained, as upon a wall; a tree or row of trees so trained.

11              An amateur fossil hunter, esp. one from the south of England (prob. after the town Lyme Regis in West Dorset, along the "Jurassic Coast.")

12              A substance composed of small molecules that are not made up of repeating monomers.

13              [Vict. Slang] a pompous fellow; a braggart.

 



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Judy Madnick

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Jul 15, 2021, 4:15:53 PM7/15/21
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12 and 13, please.

  
Judy Madnick

France International/Mike Shefler

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Jul 15, 2021, 4:19:59 PM7/15/21
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I'll go with 1 and 5.

Tim B

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Jul 15, 2021, 4:59:42 PM7/15/21
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7 and 9, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

Tim Lodge

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Jul 15, 2021, 6:12:36 PM7/15/21
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I can't resit the trained wolves, and I'll take another kind of hunting dog to go with them:  1 and 5, please.

           1              A game hunter who uses the aid of trained wolves

           5              [Obs.] or LIMER: was a kind of dog, a scent hound, used on a leash in medieval times to find large game before it was hunted down by the pack.

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Fein, Deborah

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Jul 15, 2021, 6:51:27 PM7/15/21
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2 and 4 please

Deborah Fein, Ph.D.
UConn Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
Department of Pediatrics
University of Connecticut
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Debbie Embler

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Jul 15, 2021, 7:21:47 PM7/15/21
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Lucky 7 and 11 for me.

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Paul Keating

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Jul 16, 2021, 2:40:55 AM7/16/21
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3 & 10 for me.

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Daniel B Widdis

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Jul 16, 2021, 3:49:28 AM7/16/21
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For lack of any other believable alternatives I’ll go with the canines.  1 and 5.

 

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Shani Naylor

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Jul 16, 2021, 6:03:22 AM7/16/21
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5 & 11 for me.
5              [Obs.] or LIMER: was a kind of dog, a scent hound, used on a leash in medieval times to find large game before it was hunted down by the pack.

11              An amateur fossil hunter, esp. one from the south of England (prob. after the town Lyme Regis in West Dorset, along the "Jurassic Coast.")



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Efrem G Mallach

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Jul 16, 2021, 9:24:32 AM7/16/21
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Fish, fish, fish. 2 and 3.

Efrem

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On Jul 15, 2021, at 3:58 PM, Johnb - co.uk <jo...@john-barrs.co.uk> wrote:

Below are the results of your fertile minds  plus a dictionary definition

vote for 2 of the offerings before midday BST Saturday 17th - don't look it up before you vote and if anyone now knows what it means then please notify me of your DQ
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Tony Abell

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Jul 16, 2021, 10:59:35 AM7/16/21
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I'll go molecular: 6 and 12:

> 6 One of two molecules that differ in the spatial arrangement of atoms or groups surrounding only one of two or more chiral atoms in the structure.

Ryan McGill

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Jul 16, 2021, 11:48:15 AM7/16/21
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Let's split the difference on the dogs and the loud mouths: 5 and 8, please.

Hero’s fall Cunningham

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Jul 16, 2021, 1:14:55 PM7/16/21
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10 and 11 today.

Dave

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Jul 16, 2021, 1:31:44 PM7/16/21
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Johnny – I’ll try 2 and 4.

Alan

 

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