Round 3185 vote for BRANNOCK DEVICE

[Mike Shefler]

Here are 14 definitions for BRANNOCK DEVICE, only one of which is real.

Vote for your 2 favorites no later than 5 PM, EDT, Tuesday, July 27.

1.  a method of aiming guns in sailing ships by marking the deck (after

Capt. Josiah Brannock, RN).

2.  an organelle of certain prokaryotes.

3.  [Scottish Law] a procedure allowing a defence advocate to introduce,

in certain specified circumstances, evidence which has not previously

been notified to the Procurator Fiscal.

4.  a valve used to control the flow of oxygen in a Bessemer converter;

invented by Jamie (later Sir James) Brannock (1822-1891).

5.  a device used to estimate stellar distances.

6.  a measuring instrument invented by Charles F. Brannock for measuring

a person's shoe size.

7.  used to measure the food value of breads cooked by frying.

8.  a coop or enclosure of wickerwork or spars placed in tide-ways and

openings in weirs, as a trap for salmon and other fish.

9.  in 19th century water-powered manufacturing, a mechanism that

transmitted force from the water wheel into drive belts in the

factory .

10.  a sewing gauge used to measure hemlines, tucks, and pleats as well as

the spaces required for buttons and buttonholes.

11.  a mechanical bread maker.

12.  in logic, a form of false reasoning, also known as the fallacy of the

undistributed middle.

13.  a graduated ruler that estimates geographical location from the

position of the sun and the time of day, needing no more than an

estimate of latitude.

14.  a hypothetical object theorized to be a potential mode of time

travel—although results have shown that a Brannock device could only

allow time travel if its length were infinite or with the existence

of negative energy.

[Debbie Embler]

6 and 8

Which ones will you speculate?

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[Paul Keating]

The bannock device (7) made me chuckle. But I vote for 8 &10.

[Tim B]

13 and 14, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Judy Madnick]

It's tempting to go with the two "bread" definitions, but frying bread???

 

I'll go with these:

 

5.  a device used to estimate stellar distances.

and

13.  a graduated ruler that estimates geographical location from the position of the sun and the time of day, needing no more than an estimate of latitude.

 

Judy Madnick

[Tim Lodge]

I'll try 12 and 14.

           12.  in logic, a form of false reasoning, also known as the fallacy of the undistributed middle.

 

           14.  a hypothetical object theorized to be a potential mode of time travel—although results have shown that a Brannock device could only allow time travel if its length were infinite or with the existence of negative energy.

--  Tim L

[Ryan McGill]

With all apologies to Judge Davies, I think I'll settle on raiment:

6 and 10, please.

[Hugo Kornelis]

Hi Mike,

Here are my (and my son's) votes for this round:

#9 (the force transmitter) and #12 (the undistributed middle)

Cheers,
Hugo

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[Daniel B Widdis]

Does that mean the authors of those two definitions get two votes each? 😊

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[Hugo Kornelis]

My son is (at this time, at least) not an official participant of this game. Think of him as an advisor. (And, perhaps, a future recruit ... still working on that)

Op 27-7-2021 om 00:01 schreef Daniel B Widdis:

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[Efrem G Mallach]

The last two, 13 and 14, if only to prove that I read all the way through to the end.

Efrem

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On Jul 26, 2021, at 11:20 AM, 'Mike Shefler' via Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Here are 14 definitions for BRANNOCK DEVICE, only one of which is real.

Vote for your 2 favorites no later than 5 PM, EDT, Tuesday, July 27.

[Shani Naylor]

The Brannock triplets (Josiah, Jamie & Charles) were an inventive bunch, but unfortunately I don't believe any of the defs on the list. As it is, I'll vote 10 & 11.

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[Johnb - co.uk]

Judy

On 26/07/2021 17:05, Judy Madnick wrote:

but frying bread???

World wide there are many kinds of bread cooked by frying That means pancakes, doughnuts, fried pastries, and even waffles count as do bannocks, welsh cakes, singing hinnies etc- there are many others word wide  - not everyone has an oven! AND of course there is that British favourite 'fried slice'

JohnnyB

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[Shani Naylor]

French toast!

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[Debbie Embler]

Singing hinnies is a new one for me

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[Paul Keating]

That bread might be a lost cause.

P

[Johnb - co.uk]

Debbie
they sing becasue they are very rich and the fat sizzles underneath them and they sing as the steam escapes - as I grew up they were really
cooked as a big single welsh cake without fruit --- that is probably a local variation... I believe that they come from the north east

JohnnyB

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[Debbie Embler]

I'm going to try them!

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[Shani Naylor]

It would have been a good word to deal

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[amal...@comcast.net]

It sounds Scottish and vaguely Industrial Revolution-ish, so I’ll go for 8 and 9.

 

And by the way, Josiah and Jamie Brannock were twins. Charlie was their first cousin. Charlie is mistakenly believed by some to have been the inventor of the singing hinny.

 

Alan

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[Ryan McGill]

All this talk about Brannocks made me think they were well known . . . so for the first time, I googled them. Y'all are rascals.