1. an obnoxious or
despicable male.
Submitter: Judy Madnick Votes: 4 & 5 Score: 0 + 0 + 0 = 0
Voted for by: Nobody
2. Ox or horse drawn two-wheeled vehicle.
Submitter: Deborah Fein Votes: 8 & 9 Score: 1 + 0 + 0 = 1
Voted for by: Mike Shefler
3. A style of swaddling blanket for newborns.
Submitter: Debbie Embler Votes: 4 & 5 Score: 0 + 0 + 0 = 0
Voted for by: Nobody
4. (Gr. Antiq.) A heavy-armed infantry soldier.
Submitter: Dan Widdis Votes: 5 & 7 Score: 2 + *2* + 0 = 4 *
Voted for by: Judy Madnick, Debbie Embler
5. A smuggler (esp of sheep, from England to
France).
Submitter: Shani Naylor Votes: 7 & 8 Score: 3 + *2* + 0 = 5 *
Voted for by: Judy Madnick, Debbie Embler, Dan Widdis
6. a type of wooden saddle used Spaniards in the
14th and 15th centuries.
Submitter: Mike Shefler Votes: 2 & 7 Score: 1 + *2* + 0 = 3 *
Voted for by: Johnny Barrs
7. 1. plural harmans, the stocks. 2.
Short for harman-beck n.: A
constable.
Submitter: OED Votes: - & - Score: 5 + 0 + 0 = D5
Voted for by: Dan Widdis, Shani Naylor, Mike Shefler, Johnny Barrs, Paul
Keating
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]
Submitter: Johnny Barrs Votes: 6 & 7 Score: 3 + *2* + 0 = 5 *
Voted for by: Deborah Fein, Shani Naylor, Efrem Mallach
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.)
Submitter: Efrem Mallach Votes: 8 & 10 Score: 2 + 0 + 0 = 2
Voted for by: Deborah Fein, Paul Keating