Round 3655 PIBGORN

[Tim Lodge]

Here we have 12 defs of the word PIBGORN  (phew - got it right, I think), only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline:

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‏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

 *** PIBGORN ***

 1.  A descendant of an outcast.

 2.  The principal theme in a pibroch.

 3.  An ethnic group of Central America.

 4.  [Scots Gaelic] The blowstick of a bagpipe.

 5.  An improvised solution that proves unexpectedly superior.

 6.  An ancient wind instrument of Wales resembling the hornpipe.

 7.  A bundle of river reeds tied together for use as a scrubbing tool.

 8.  A small covered drain carrying spring water beneath a path or field boundary.

 9.  A type of crude iron shaped like a block, commonly used as an industrial raw material.

10.  [US campus slang] a brooding, gloomy adolescent who wears dark clothes and listens to gloomy alternative music.

11.  An old name in Wales for either of two grains of the wheat family: emmer (Triticum dicoccum) and einkorn (T. monococcum).

12.  The thirteenth (or more) piglet in a litter which therefore has to really struggle to find a teat; Often a runt through lack of food.

[Judy Madnick]

Decisions, decisions. I'll go with 8 and 9 today.

 

Judy Madnick

[Tim Bourne]

8 and 12, please.

Tim B 

[Chowie]

I'm going to bet on similarity and vote 4 and 6. 

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[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with 2 and 4.

--Mike

[Tony Abell]

I'll try 8 and 11:

> 8. A small covered drain carrying spring water beneath a path or field
> boundary.