Rnd 3134 CUTTANEE - votes please

[Johnb - co.uk]

Drear all

here are 13 defs for CUTTANEE please use whatever method you like to chose 2 of them: one comes from a dictionary the others are the results of your inimitable thought processes

Please Vote over the next 36 hours: so the deadline is 10 pm (2200) GMT Jan 15 and as appropriate elsewhere in the world

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JohnnyB 

1              rounded by glacial action into a shape likened to a sheep's back

2              [Nautical] a block having a hole in one side to receive the bight of a rope

3              Apparently a former Hindu funerary rite

4              a crude double-headed polearm with a blunted spearhead at one end and a gisarme or war-scythe at the other

5              a fordable river crossing [Pawnee]

6              a fine heavy and stout silk and cotton satin of East India, used for quilts and upholstery.

7              a single-masted settee used by Arab traders in the 15th and 16th centuries

8              a lady. Also used as a title of courtesy. [Persian]

9              (West Indies, 19th cent.) A fast dance characterized by jumping and slashing movements, associated with the sugar cane harvest

10              a short clay pipe

11              a homespun cotton fabric woven in the Indian subcontinent

12              (Zool.) (a) The sauger. (b) The lizard fish

13              a method for transferring designs onto fabrics using a fine powder, made from ground charcoal, chalk dust or powdered crayfish shell, which is dusted over a stencil to transfer a design to an underlying surface

 

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[Paul Keating]

3 & 11 for me.

P

[Tim B]

I love the idea of sailing around on a settee, but no, it will have to be 3 and 10, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Judy Madnick]

6 and 11 (in an effort to spread out the votes!).

 

Judy Madnick

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Date: 1/14/2021 5:02:52 AM

Subject: [Dixonary] Rnd 3134 CUTTANEE - votes please

[Debbie]

My 2 cents go to the 5 & 9.

Apparently.

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[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go for 3 and 12.\\--Mike

[ALAN MALLACH]

Johnny - I too love the image of Arab merchants sailing the Indian on a couch. One wouldn't think it would be very seaworthy.

That said, I like the Indian fabrics, so I'll go with 6, and for variety 13. 

Alan

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[Fein, Deborah]

No clue. I'll go with 5 and 11.  Deb

Deborah Fein, Ph.D.
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[Tony Abell]

I'll vote for 3 and 13:

> 3 Apparently a former Hindu funerary rite

[nancygoat]

I'll take 8 and the popular 11.  Might as well pile on.

Nancy

[Tim Lodge]

I'll try 3 and 12.

          3              Apparently a former Hindu funerary rite

        12              (Zool.) (a) The sauger. (b) The lizard fish

--  Tim L

[Ryan McGill]

2 & the popular but as yet unpicked 7

[Shani Naylor]

Fabric for me: 6 & 11

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[Hero’s fall Cunningham]

6 and 9 as creative

Dave

[Efrem G Mallach]

6 and 10 for me.

Efrem

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On Jan 14, 2021, at 5:02 AM, Johnb - co.uk <jo...@john-barrs.co.uk> wrote:

Drear all

here are 13 defs for CUTTANEE please use whatever method you like to chose 2 of them: one comes from a dictionary the others are the results of your inimitable thought processes

Please Vote over the next 36 hours: so the deadline is 10 pm (2200) GMT Jan 15 and as appropriate elsewhere in the world

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JohnnyB 

6              a fine heavy and stout silk and cotton satin of East India, used for quilts and upholstery.

[Daniel B Widdis]

Definitely voting for 13 for the choice of spelling of ‘crayfish’.  Staying on the fabric theme leads to 6 or 11, and I may as well pile on to the latter one with vox pop.

 

So 11 and 13 please.

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[Johnb - co.uk]

Point of Info

how do you-all over the pond spell 'crayfish'?

I feel I can ask because all who submitted have now voted so I am about to close the game for this round

JohnnyB

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[Paul Keating]

The commoner form is crawfish, though as with all common names for seafood, what it applies to is also dependent on region. 

[Daniel B Widdis]

My wife is from New Orleans, where the crawfish is the official state crustacean, and the creature is deeply embedded in Cajun history.  I think they are the authority on the matter and I thus use the more Southern U.S. “craw-“ spelling. 

 

“Cray-“ is for northerners who don’t eat enough of it to have any standing whatsoever in defending their incorrect spelling, despite the fact that Wikipedia prefers it.

 

I did try to get personalized MUDBUG license plates when I had a VW Beetle, but someone else beat me to it.

 

 

 

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[Ryan McGill]

Johnny,

I don't think of it as a spelling thing. Primarily because they're pronounced differently. If they're spelled differently and pronounced differently, I'm confident in positing that they're two different words, despite referring to the same creature. I'm trying to think of another example, but I've got a massive headache and can't think of much at the moment.

Around here, I've mostly heard common folk call them "crawdads", ad sometimes "crawdaddies". "Crawfish" is less common here, but not unusual. I've only heard "crayfish" a very few times, and it wasn't local, so I don't rightly know where that's used. You can find them all over the rivers here, but cuisine-wise, you mostly find them in Asian restaurants, where they're listed as "crawfish". The soul food restaurants don't keep them around much, but the sushi joint up the street from my house has a really tasty roll where they're quite prominent, and at least one of the Asian buffets has them boiled regularly. They're occasionally available in grocery stores around here, too.

For reference, I'm in a part of the US's Pacific Northwest where our regionalisms seem heavily influenced by the midwest, as that's where most of the settlers here came from in the early 1900s. Parts of my family were here as early as the late 1800s, but much of them made their way West in my great-grandparents' generation. My dad's family came here in the '60s from Illinois by way of the Mojave via Route 66. And there have been many transplants from California since. (My grandpa McGill intended to settle in Oregon since working in the high desert here in the CCCs back in the '30s, but he and grandma kept having kids, and since they were from a family of poor farmhands, the migration ended up taking a good 2 ½ decades.) Everyone on both sides of my family calls them crawdads conversationally. Unless they're calling them crawdaddies.

I hope that wasn't too much of an info dump. Enjoy!

Ryan

[Debbie]

They are crawdads in the South also.

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[Shani Naylor]

We call them crayfish in New Zealand, but I've just looked on Wikipedia and it says crayfish (and crawdads etc) are freshwater crustaceans so maybe what we have here are in fact lobsters.

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