speight, choose one:

a) a long handled gaff used in sport fishing

b) German mythological bird resembling a yellow-bellied sapsucker

c) a channel sewn into a corset to hold a whalebone (baleen) stiffening strip

d) a bridge which requires payment of a toll at both ends

e) to make clear or clarify; elucidate

f) the green woodpecker (obs.)

g) foul-mouthed

h) prediction, prophecy; augury, omen (rare)

i) a drying rack for turves

j) a display window magic trick: An unhooked spigot is suspended from a height of about two feet by a single fishing line. Once turned on water rushes out from the spigot into a wash pan night and day for about a week.

k) hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed

l) a collection, meeting, or assemblage, esp. one to elect a military officer from the ranks of enlisted men (archaic)

m) (Scot.) late; lateness

n) a small wooden sluice for draining water from an overflow tank

o) a slew; a myriad; a vast quantity

As one fascinated with the ivory-bill, I'll take F

gimme a.

I'm going to yield to the temptation of C .

The L with it.

I like C too.

I like I just for its audacity.

Eagerly awaiting the Armil® Report.

N sounds right to me.

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H for me, too.

O K

N

Probably should have done 'turves' first? O sounds plausible as a foreign or archaic spelling of 'spate' but A. is also going with K.

I choose I

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Probably should have done 'turves' first? O sounds plausible as a foreign or archaic spelling of 'spate' but A. is also going with K.

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I couldn't tell if this was a vote for A and/or K until it occurred to me that you often refer to yourself (somewhat solipsistically) as A. so A. votes for K?!

btw, I'd venture that turves is pl. for turf..