1. a child's comfort
blanket.
Submitter: Johnny Barrs Votes: 9 & 12 Score: 2 + 0 + 0 = 2
Voted for by: Debbie Embler, Mike Shefler
2. the weight on a fishing line
Submitter: Debbie Embler Votes: 1 & 12 Score: 1 + 0 + 0 = 1
Voted for by: Alan Mallach
3. an unpromising, silly, or useless person.
Submitter: Judy Madnick Votes: 6 & 11 Score: 2 + 0 + 0 = 2
Voted for by: Paul Keating, Tim Bourne
4. a variety of brine-cured Canadian cheese.
Submitter: Efrem Mallach Votes: 5 & 6 Score: 2 + 0 + 0 = 2
Voted for by: Dan Widdis, Tim Bourne
5. [Obs.] a sparkling white wine [< F _blanquette_]
Submitter: Paul Keating Votes: 3 & 8 Score: 2 + *2* + 0 = 4 *
Voted for by: Efrem Mallach, Dan Widdis
6. [Thieves Cant] a false coin or slug ( Fr. _planchet_]
Submitter: Dave Cunningham Votes: 0 & 0 Score: 3 + 0 + 0 = 3
Voted for by: Judy Madnick, Efrem Mallach, Shani Naylor
7. (Naut.) a tackle composed of two single blocks
and a fall.
Submitter: Dan Widdis Votes: 4 & 5 Score: 0 + 0 + 0 = 0
Voted for by: Nobody
8. a light greyish-blue colour; a dye of this
colour. _Obsolete._
Submitter: OED Votes: - & - Score: 1 + 0 + 0 = D1
Voted for by: Paul Keating
9. a traditional children's dessert, probably
similar to the "curds and whey" of the old nursery rhyme.
Submitter: Tim Bourne Votes: 3 & 4 Score: 3 + 0 + 0 = 3
Voted for by: Johnny Barrs, Alan Mallach, Mike Shefler
10. A heavily
embroidered double-breasted waistcoat, popularised by the Regency era dandy
Lord Plunket.
Submitter: Shani Naylor Votes: 6 & 11 Score: 1 + 0 + 0 = 1
Voted for by: Tony Abell
11. (Western U.S.
slang) a particularly large gambling bet; poss. der. from the sound of a large
gold coin or nugget hitting the table.
Submitter: Alan Mallach Votes: 2 & 9 Score: 2 + 0 + 0 = 2
Voted for by: Judy Madnick, Shani Naylor
12. A distance equal
to exactly 5 feet 9-1/2 inches, created in 1959 when Lambda Chi Alpha
fraternity members at Harvard decided to use pledge Thomas Plunket as a unit of
measurement in response to MIT's creation of the "smoot" the previous
year, which used the height of Oliver Smoot (class of 1962) to measure the
length of a bridge.
Submitter: Mike Shefler Votes: 1 & 9 Score: 3 + 0 + 0 = 3
Voted for by: Johnny Barrs, Debbie Embler, Tony Abell
No def: Tony Abell Votes: 10 & 12 Score: 0 + 0 + 0 = 0
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