Round 3696 WARROK Defs - Vote Now!

[Tim Lodge]

Here we have 14 defs of the word WARROK only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline:

        17:00 UTC/GMT on Wednesday 12th November in London
        18:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
        12:00 Midday EST in New York  
         9:00 AM PST in California
        06:00 NZDT in New Zealand

‏I reserve the right to close the round early if all players who have submitted a def have voted.

New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.

--  Tim L

 *** WARROK ***

1.  A gully.

 2.  A normally dry watercourse.

 3.  [Uzbek] the Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo).

 4.  a long haired warrior maiden; sometimes used for 'amazon'

 5.  A Falkland Islands wolf, a canid that became extinct in 1876.

 6.  A sheep which has a square piece cut out of the edge of its ear.

 7.  [Dialect] A peculiar tackle used in shipyards, etc. on Tyneside.

 8.  Flour corn, a type of maize primarily used for making corn flour.

 9.  a small pit viper of South America, found mainly in the Amazon basin.

10.  A passage or gap formed naturally between the two halves of a split boulder.

11.  A stunted, feeble, ill-grown person, plant, etc.; a worthless fellow, a ne'er-do-well.

12.  A decorative groove carved into wooden tools to denote ownership or rank within a craft guild.

13.  A heap of potatoes, turnips, etc. covered with earth and straw, in order to preserve from decay.

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. 

[Tim Lodge]

Shani

Your deadline is, of course a day ahead of the rest of us:

        06:00 NZDT on Thursday 13th in New Zealand 

--  Tim L

[Paul Keating]

Looking at the list, I reckon I know that word.

P

[John Barrs]

#3 AND #11 PLEASE

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[Judy Madnick]

 

I'll fall for these:

 

1.  A gully.

10.  A passage or gap formed naturally between the two halves of a split boulder.

Judy Madnick

[Shani Naylor]

I'll try 1 & 2.

1.  A gully.

 2.  A normally dry watercourse.

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[France International/Mike Shefler]

A vote for a wolf and a sheep seems appropriate, so 5 and 6 for me.

--Mike

[Efrem Mallach]

2 and 5, please.

Efrem

On Nov 11, 2025, at 5:29 AM, 'Tim Lodge' via Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Here we have 14 defs of the word WARROK only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline:

        17:00 UTC/GMT on Wednesday 12th November in London
        18:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
        12:00 Midday EST in New York  
         9:00 AM PST in California
        06:00 NZDT in New Zealand

‏I reserve the right to close the round early if all players who have submitted a def have voted.

New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.

--  Tim L

 *** WARROK ***

 2.  A normally dry watercourse.

 5.  A Falkland Islands wolf, a canid that became extinct in 1876.

[Chowie]

4 and 7 please

~Bending under the weight of His mercies~

​"For we cannot do anything against the truth, 

but only for the truth​." 

II Corinthians 13:8

[Eric Boxer]

I'll vote for 1 and 2.

-- Eric

[Tim Bourne]

Shopping for possible answers, I'll go for 7 and 11, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Daniel B. Widdis]

What would you make corn flour with other than flour corn?  

And why would you call something a watercourse when it's dry?

Questions nobody is asking.

2 and 8 please.

[Glenn Thomas Davis]

Ok 2 and 8.

—Glenn

. . .

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

—Plutarch

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[Tony Abell]

I'll take 3 and 5:


> 3. [Uzbek] the Eurasian eagle owl (*Bubo bubo*).