Round 3696 WARROK Results

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Tim Lodge

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Nov 12, 2025, 1:45:29 PM (13 days ago) Nov 12
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WARROK is a dialect word for a peculiar Tyneside tackle (Def 6), as Debbie Embler and Tim Bourne guessed.  Tony Abell is our new dealer, with 5 votes for his dry watercourse, while Efrem Mallach is the lucky runner-up with 3 votes for his gully.

Over to you, Tony.

--  Tim L


 *** WARROK ***

1.  A gully.                
Submitter: Efrem Mallach Votes: 2 & 5 Score: 3  + 0 + 0  = 3  
Voted for by: Eric Boxer, Judy Madnick, Shani Naylor          

 2.  A normally dry watercourse.              
Submitter: Tony Abell Votes: 3 & 5 Score: 5  + 0 + 0  = 5  
Voted for by: Efrem Mallach, Eric Boxer, Glenn Davis, Shani Naylor, Dan Widdis    

 3.  [Uzbek] the Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo).            
Submitter: Mike Shefler Votes: 5 & 6 Score: 2  + 0 + 0  = 2  
Voted for by: Tony Abell, Johnny Barrs             

 4.  a long haired warrior maiden; sometimes used for 'amazon'         
Submitter: Johnny Barrs Votes: 3 & 11 Score: 1  + 0 + 0  = 1  
Voted for by: Debbie Embler              

 5.  A Falkland Islands wolf, a canid that became extinct in 1876.         
Submitter: Nancy Shepherdson Votes: NV   Score: 3  + 0 + 0  = 3  
Voted for by: Efrem Mallach, Tony Abell, Mike Shefler          

 6.  A sheep which has a square piece cut out of the edge of its ear.        
Submitter: Debbie Embler Votes: 4 & 7 Score: 1  + *2* + 0  = 3 *
Voted for by: Mike Shefler              

 7.  [Dialect] A peculiar tackle used in shipyards, etc. on Tyneside.        
Submitter:  Eng. Dial. Dict. 1905 Votes: - & - Score: 2  + 0 + 0  = D2  
Voted for by: Debbie Embler, Tim Bourne             

 8.  Flour corn, a type of maize primarily used for making corn flour.       
Submitter: Eric Boxer Votes: 1 & 2 Score: 2  + 0 + 0  = 2  
Voted for by: Glenn Davis, Dan Widdis             

 9.  a small pit viper of South America, found mainly in the Amazon basin.      
Submitter: Tim Bourne Votes: 7 & 11 Score: 0  + *2* + 0  = 2 *
Voted for by: Nobody               

10.  A passage or gap formed naturally between the two halves of a split boulder.    
Submitter: Glenn Davis Votes: 2 & 8 Score: 1  + 0 + 0  = 1  
Voted for by: Judy Madnick              

11.  A stunted, feeble, ill-grown person, plant, etc.; a worthless fellow, a ne'er-do-well.  
Submitter: Paul Keating Votes: DQ   Score: 2  + 0 + 0  = 2  
Voted for by: Johnny Barrs, Tim Bourne             

12.  A decorative groove carved into wooden tools to denote ownership or rank within a craft guild.
Submitter: Judy Madnick Votes: 1 & 10 Score: 0  + 0 + 0  = 0  
Voted for by: Nobody               

13.  A heap of potatoes, turnips, etc. covered with earth and straw, in order to preserve from decay.
Submitter: Shani Naylor Votes: 1 & 2 Score: 0  + 0 + 0  = 0  
Voted for by: Nobody               

14.  A small twist or kink in a rope or cord that briefly halts its movement; fig. a minor snag or complication that interrupts progress. 
Submitter: Dan Widdis Votes: 2 & 8 Score: 0  + 0 + 0  = 0  
Voted for by: Nobody               

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Tim Lodge

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Nov 12, 2025, 1:48:45 PM (13 days ago) Nov 12
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Oops - the round was 3596 - I'm a bit ahead of myself!


nancygoat

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Nov 12, 2025, 2:54:46 PM (13 days ago) Nov 12
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I also had 3 votes for my extinct wolf...I'll take all the runner-up positions I can get with my record lately.
Nancy

Tim Lodge

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Nov 12, 2025, 5:06:06 PM (13 days ago) Nov 12
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Sorry, Nancy, I missed that.

-- Tim L


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