Here we have 10 defs of the word HARMAN, only one of which comes from my dictionary. There are some great inventions here - I hope I've managed to get the text decorations as you wished them. Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is:
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-- Tim L
*** HARMAN ***
1. an obnoxious or despicable male.
2. Ox or horse drawn two-wheeled vehicle.
3. A style of swaddling blanket for newborns.
4. (Gr. Antiq.) A heavy-armed infantry soldier.
5. A smuggler (esp of sheep, from England to France).
6. a type of wooden saddle used by Spaniards in the 14th and 15th centuries.
7. 1. plural harmans, the stocks. 2. Short for harman-beck n.: A constable.
8. [rural Scot. obs.] a secondary officer of the law who can take evidence in cases of straying animals etc. Usually used negatively as in the phrase dinna tell the harman [from hardman]
9. Thought to be a threshing floor, known only from the medieval verse "Twenty turns ye harman round / Cavil, cavil all ye horses" found with an illustration of same in a copy of "The Owl and the Nightingale" (c. 1200, author unk.)
10. ermine [OF (h)ermine infl. by eME harma < OE hearma ‘dormouse, ferret, stoat, weasel’; remoter etymology disputed, but both poss. ult. from PIE *kʹormōn represented by OHG harmo and Lithuanian szermu̇]
4. (Gr. Antiq.) A heavy-armed infantry soldier.
5. A smuggler (esp of sheep, from England to France).
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On Jul 21, 2022, at 6:35 AM, Tim Lodge <d...@timlodge.co.uk> wrote:
Here we have 10 defs of the word HARMAN, only one of which comes from my dictionary. There are some great inventions here - I hope I've managed to get the text decorations as you wished them. Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is:
09:00 UTC/GMT on Saturday 23rd July
10:00 BST in London
11:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
5:00 AM EDT in New York
2:00 AM PDT in California
21:00 NZST in New Zealand
New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.
-- Tim L*** HARMAN ***
8. [rural Scot. obs.] a secondary officer of the law who can take evidence in cases of straying animals etc. Usually used negatively as in the phrase dinna tell the harman [from hardman]
10. ermine [OF (h)ermine infl. by eME harma < OE hearma ‘dormouse, ferret, stoat, weasel’; remoter etymology disputed, but both poss. ult. from PIE *kʹormōn represented by OHG harmo and Lithuanian szermu̇]
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A 5 might find themselves in the 7.