Round 3025 vote for QVEVRI

[Mike Shefler]

Here are 14 definitions for QVEVRI, one of which came from the dictionary

Vote for your two favorites no later than 5 PM EST, Monday, November 4.

1.  [Old English] quiver.

2.  [Khoekhoe] a hunting spear used by Kalahari bushmen.

3.  the act of disentangling oneself from a difficult situation.

4.  an unexpected solution to a problem.

5.  a European oak, _Qvervus petraea_, yielding a heavy, elastic wood

used for furniture and in the construction of buildings.

6.  a large, aquatic, Australian lizard, allied to the monitors.

7.  the Incan goddess of the harvest.

8.  [Pash.]  the opium poppy.

9.  an Ü-Tsang dialect spoken also in part of Kham, a form of the Tibetic

languages that has many commonalities with Standard Tibetan, the

official language of the Chinese Autonomous Region of Tibet.

10.  large earthenware vessels used for the fermentation, storage and

ageing of traditional Georgian wine

11.  the cloudberry or knoutberry,  a low, single stemmed, single flowered

raspberry. [Alaskan Inupiaq - where it is also called AQPIK]

12.  an ancient irrigation system consisting of a tunnel dug at a very

slight upward gradient into rising ground so that water from deep

within the earth runs out to the surface.

13.  a kind of liturgical melody common in Turkish worship in the late

Middle Ages.

14.  a large lake on the border of the municipalities of Alta, Kautokeino,

and Karasjok in Finnmark county, Norway.

[Judy Madnick]

For no good reason whatsoever:

 

5.  a European oak, _Qvervus petraea, yielding a heavy, elastic wood used for furniture and in the construction of buildings.

 
12.  an ancient irrigation system consisting of a tunnel dug at a very slight upward gradient into rising ground so that water from deep within the earth runs out to the surface.

 

Judy Madnick

Albany, NY

[Debbie]

4 and 10 please

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[Tim Lodge]

Difficult choice!  I'll try 10 and 12.

10.  large earthenware vessels used for the fermentation, storage and ageing of traditional Georgian wine.

12.  an ancient irrigation system consisting of a tunnel dug at a very slight upward gradient into rising ground so that water from deep within the earth runs out to the surface.

--  Tim L

[Dave Cunningham]

9 and 12 solely on length. All of them are fake.

Dave

[Efrem G Mallach]

Doesn't seem English, which eliminates some, and I don't think Mike would deal a proper noun ... Of those that remain, 7 and 9.

Efrem

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On Nov 3, 2019, at 10:49 AM, Mike Shefler <sta...@salsgiver.com> wrote:

Here are 14 definitions for QVEVRI, one of which came from the dictionary

Vote for your two favorites no later than 5 PM EST, Monday, November 4.

7.  the Incan goddess of the harvest.

[Shani Naylor]

4 & 10 for me, having not a clue...

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[nancygoat]

I'll take 5 and double it for 10.

Nancy

[Daniel B Widdis]

10 and 12 please

 

[Ryan McGill]

We have a rather low vote count for now. I'll go with the oddly uncombined 3 and with 8, as it seems to be similar in form to middle-eastern languages.

3.  the act of disentangling oneself from a difficult situation.

[Tony Abell]

I'll take 2 and 3 for no particular reasons: