Rnd 3157 :STOTTING - Call for Votes

[Johnb - co.uk]

Dear people

here are  15 definitions mostly contributed by the fertile minds of the players, but one came from a dictionary. Please vote for your choice of two of them awarded in a search for truth or to reward invention - or randomly if you wish. Please declare a DQ to me (not the list address) if you now know the dictionary def. The rules for the game are on https://www.dixonary.net/ and any member of the group may vote even if you did not submit a def

I'll call a halt when either every submitter has voted or 10:00 am BST Monday

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JohnnyB

1              [Icel.] an agricultural cooperative

2              [Icel.] official name of the Icelandic flag after independence from Denmark

3              a facing of stout wooden poles sunk into the ground to form a retaining wall on river banks, hillsides, and other slopes.

4              a cull of lambs

5              contending competing

6              a behaviour in which some birds fake an injured wing to draw predators away from the nest

7              a behaviour of quadrupeds, particularly gazelles, in which they spring into the air, lifting all four feet off the ground simultaneously

8              [OE] A council of landowners that advises an earl on civil matters affecting his county

9              a building technique used in English rural housing in which packed earth and other materials were inserted between the wall beams for purposes of insulation

10          overlapping shiny discs used as an edge decoration       

11              a primitive tattooing technique in which a quill or feather is impregnated with ink and rapidly and repeatedly used to puncture the epidermis

12              (Sculpt.) The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model.

13              an upholstered footstool or short bench

14              a seven step filing process

15              Irish dancing that involves going on toe

 

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[Paul Keating]

If I eliminate the behaviours, acts, processes and techniques that imply an infinitive verb to stot (don't get me stotted), that doesn't leave much. I'll vote for 3 & 13.

P

[Tim Lodge]

The behaviour in 7 definitely has a name, but I'm not sure it's stotting.  I'll vote for it anyway, along with the landowners' council, which I don't really believe either! That's 7 and 8, please.

7              a behaviour of quadrupeds, particularly gazelles, in which they spring into the air, lifting all four feet off the ground simultaneously

8              [OE] A council of landowners that advises an earl on civil matters affecting his county

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[Judy Madnick]

6 a behaviour in which some birds fake an injured wing to draw predators away from the nest

7 a behaviour of quadrupeds, particularly gazelles, in which they spring into the air, lifting all four feet off the ground simultaneously

 

Judy Madnick

  

 

[Debbie]

12 and 3 please

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[Fein, Deborah]

Stuck two pins in my laptop and came up with 9 and 10

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[Tim B]

1 and 7, please.

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[Shani Naylor]

I'll go Icelandic  - 1 & 2.

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[Daniel B Widdis]

I think the Irish dancers and gazelles both do that up and down thing and it should have a name. Why not stotting?

 

7 and 15 please!

[Efrem G Mallach]

I agree with whoever eliminated all the defs that suggest there is a verb "to stot." I'll go further and eliminate anything that isn't, or wasn't once, an English word. The remaining ones don't seem plausible, but I'll pick two of them: 3 and 13.

Efrem

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On Apr 10, 2021, at 6:21 AM, Johnb - co.uk <jo...@john-barrs.co.uk> wrote:

Dear people

here are  15 definitions mostly contributed by the fertile minds of the players, but one came from a dictionary. Please vote for your choice of two of them awarded in a search for truth or to reward invention - or randomly if you wish. Please declare a DQ to me (not the list address) if you now know the dictionary def. The rules for the game are on https://www.dixonary.net/ and any member of the group may vote even if you did not submit a def

I'll call a halt when either every submitter has voted or 10:00 am BST Monday

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JohnnyB

3              a facing of stout wooden poles sunk into the ground to form a retaining wall on river banks, hillsides, and other slopes.

[Tony Abell]

I'll take 5 because it doesn't make any sense, and 11 because it does:


> 5 contending competing

[Judy Madnick]

Thank you for the vote, Tony. When the list was posted I saw that I had omitted a semicolon between the two words and assumed no one would vote for my definition. 😄

Judy

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