Round 3652 vote for KLINKI

[Mike Shefler]

Here are 12 fine definitions for KLINKI, one of which came from a respectable dictionary.
Vote for your 2 favorites no later than 10 AM EDT, Saturday, May 30.

1.  A Jamaican name for a grackle, _Quiscalus niger_.

2.  A conifer, _Araucaria hunsteinii_, native to the mountains of Papua
New Guinea.

3.  Bells traditionally attached to reindeer to make them easier to
locate.

4.  A sickle-like tool of South Asia, used for harvesting rice.

5.  A small woody outgrowth occurring low on the stem of many climbing
plants.

6.  [Old Norse] The noise an empty bowl makes when tapped.

7.  A palm-muted, distorted guitar chug, esp. in metal music.

8.  A pole vault attempt in which the athlete's trailing foot
inadvertently dislodges the bar.

9.  Building bricks, also known as engineering bricks made of sintered
clay; fired at a high temperature of around 1200ºC.

10.  Fine gravel.

11.  [Obs.] A two-man tent [named for Austrian cavalry officer Walter
Klinki]

12.  [slang, hist.] A guillotine, so called from the imagined sound of its
blade falling.

[Paul Keating]

Johnny says he knows this word, so it’s probably animal or vegetable. 1 & 2, the bird and the tree.

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Paul Keating

Soustons, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France

[Tim Bourne]

4 and 10, please.

Best wishes,
Tim B.

[Eric Boxer]

I'll vote for 6 and 10.

Eric

[Judy Madnick]

I'll try 2 and 10 today.

 

Judy Madnick

[Chowie]

3 and 10

~Bending under the weight of His mercies~

"Life is short, God is real, Heaven is coming." 

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[Shani Naylor]

1 & 5 for me. 

[Tim Lodge]

I'll try 9 and 10.

      9.  Building bricks, also known as engineering bricks made of sintered clay; fired at a high temperature of around 1200ºC.

     10.  Fine gravel.

--Tim L

[Daniel B. Widdis]

I'll go for 1 and 2 with the same logic as Paul.

[Efrem Mallach]

3 actually seems vaguely plausible, making it almost certainly wrong, and 10 because it's popular,

Efrem

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> On May 28, 2026, at 11:35 AM, 'Mike Shefler' via Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> Here are 12 fine definitions for KLINKI, one of which came from a respectable dictionary.
> Vote for your 2 favorites no later than 10 AM EDT, Saturday, May 30.
>
>
>

> 3. Bells traditionally attached to reindeer to make them easier to
> locate.
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> 10. Fine gravel.