Round 3554 CUTHILL Defs - Vote Now!

[Tim Lodge]

Here we have 15 defs of the word CUTHILL only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline:

        09:00 UTC/GMT on Thursday 19th June
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        11:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         5:00 AM EDT in New York  
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        21:00 NZST 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

*** CUTHILL ***

1.  Sc. Notorious.

 2.  A small wood, a grove.

 3.  An ill-humoured person.

 4.  The distinctive call of a nocturnal bird.

 5.  A syncline exaggerated by u-valley glaciation

 6.  A ground cover plant common in northern England.

 7.  A drainage pipe or ditch allowing drainage across an embankment.

 8.  A highway constructed on land cleared by mountain excavation methods.

 9.  A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles; a device for punishment.

10.  A family disposition to some sort of health problem, often thought to be a curse [16/17th C Eng.]

11.  A type of geosynthetic material used to reinforce soil [named for developer James W. Cuthall,  b.1969].

12.  An unauthorized footpath that develops across landscaped terrain, typically appearing after new construction projects.

13.  The faint, shimmering optical illusion that appears above very warm asphalt on a hot day, making distant objects seem to undulate.

14.  Scot. A mixture of lard or tallow and coarsely ground grains such as oats or barley, sometimes combined with greaves or dried meats.

15.  A specialized woodworking tool used in early 18th-century furniture making designed for carving intricate lattice patterns into chair backs and cabinet doors.

[collect]

5 gets my Bill Buckley vote  and 8 my vote as “hill” seems rather likely.  

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[Chowie]

4 or 14

~Bending under the weight of His mercies~

The Eternal God is my refuge, and underneath are the Everlasting Arms. 

Deuteronomy 33:27

[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with 3 and 10.

--Mike

[Judy Madnick]

Chosen as least likely:

        

9.  A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles; a device for punishment.

14.  Scot. A mixture of lard or tallow and coarsely ground grains such as oats or barley, sometimes combined with greaves or dried meats.

 

Judy Madnick

[Glenn Thomas Davis]

I'll give 3 and 8 a try.

—Glenn

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

—Plutarch

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[John Barrs]

#13 and #15 please

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[Daniel B. Widdis]

I disbelieve 9 and 14 less than I disbelieve the rest.

[Tim Bourne]

7 and 15, please.
Best wishes,  Tim Bourne.

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[Shani Naylor]

I'll vote for 1 & 3.

[Paul Keating]

By elimination:

I’ll start by leaving out the cuts, the hills, the cut hills and the hill cuts: 5, 7, 8,  12, 15.

Neil Rubenking’s rule, “the eponym is never it (except when it is)” takes care of 11.

It might be Scots, but if I go Scots (1 and 14) I get dog-food of ill repute. Besides, Tim isn’t in the habit of choosing Scots words. 

In a definition involving a plant or an animal, I think a dictionary would say what plant or animal it meant. So out with 4 and 6.

10 and 13 are undictionarylike.

That leaves me 2, 3, and 9.

I'll take the unpopular 2 and the popular 9.

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Paul Keating

Soustons, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France

[Rey]

1 and 14.

[Eric Boxer]

I'll vote for 1 and 3.

-- Eric

On Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at 1:50:03 AM UTC-7 r...@rocketcottage.com wrote:

1 and 14.

[Efrem Mallach]

9 and 10 for me, please.

Efrem

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On Jun 17, 2025, at 1:21 PM, 'Tim Lodge' via Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Here we have 15 defs of the word CUTHILL only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline:

        09:00 UTC/GMT on Thursday 19th June
        10:00 BST in London
        11:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         5:00 AM EDT in New York  
         2:00 AM PDT in California
        21:00 NZST 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

*** CUTHILL ***

[Tony Abell]

I'll throw guesses 9 and 15:

> 9. A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles; a device for
> punishment.