1 rounded by glacial action into a shape likened to a sheep's back
2 [Nautical] a block having a hole in one side to receive the bight of a rope
3 Apparently a former Hindu funerary rite
4 a crude double-headed polearm with a blunted spearhead at one end and a gisarme or war-scythe at the other
5 a fordable river crossing [Pawnee]
6 a fine heavy and stout silk and cotton satin of East India, used for quilts and upholstery.
7 a single-masted settee used by Arab traders in the 15th and 16th centuries
8 a lady. Also used as a title of courtesy. [Persian]
9 (West Indies, 19th cent.) A fast dance characterized by jumping and slashing movements, associated with the sugar cane harvest
10 a short clay pipe
11 a homespun cotton fabric woven in the Indian subcontinent
12 (Zool.) (a) The sauger. (b) The lizard fish
13 a method for transferring designs onto fabrics using a fine powder, made from ground charcoal, chalk dust or powdered crayfish shell, which is dusted over a stencil to transfer a design to an underlying surface
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On Jan 14, 2021, at 5:02 AM, Johnb - co.uk <jo...@john-barrs.co.uk> wrote:
Drear all
here are 13 defs for CUTTANEE please use whatever method you like to chose 2 of them: one comes from a dictionary the others are the results of your inimitable thought processes
Please Vote over the next 36 hours: so the deadline is 10 pm (2200) GMT Jan 15 and as appropriate elsewhere in the world
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6 a fine heavy and stout silk and cotton satin of East India, used for quilts and upholstery.
Definitely voting for 13 for the choice of spelling of ‘crayfish’. Staying on the fabric theme leads to 6 or 11, and I may as well pile on to the latter one with vox pop.
So 11 and 13 please.
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My wife is from New Orleans, where the crawfish is the official state crustacean, and the creature is deeply embedded in Cajun history. I think they are the authority on the matter and I thus use the more Southern U.S. “craw-“ spelling.
“Cray-“ is for northerners who don’t eat enough of it to have any standing whatsoever in defending their incorrect spelling, despite the fact that Wikipedia prefers it.
I did try to get personalized MUDBUG license plates when I had a VW Beetle, but someone else beat me to it.
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