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A March Hog needs no cleaning. Springtime hogs want to be out on an adventure.
Not hot tubs, but a dig in de porridge trough and a roll in the mud.
Earthy definitions..... you can dig your burrow down to the deepest essence, muffle a word, plant a tree, climb a mountain, fill up a hole in the the road and have a sturdy meal or a stout drink. Build your Chapel.
......................Pick and choose and beware of quicksands.
*Voting till Monday 21. Open to submitters, subscribers, invisibles, guests and spiders.*
a) archaic Scots term for whole oats cooked with beer and butter.
b) a patch of quicksand (or similar) between the hillocks of swamp.
c) a drink made with water or "small beer" and rum, which was introduced into the Royal Navy in 1740. Pronounced grog
d) a geological land feature formed by an oceanic eddy; when the sea level recedes the depression left behind is termed a grough
e) to speak a muffled word into ones hand as if to cough.
f) to plant something again or in a new place
g) a small burrowing North American marsupial, related to the opossum
h) (pronounced "grok")-to understand thoroughy and completely, to the deepest essence. A Martian word, coined by Robert Heinlein in Stranger in a Strange Land; it became a cult word in the Science Fiction world in the 1960s.
i) mounteneering a natural channel or fissure in a peat moor; a peat hag
j)a road surface marked with potholes
k)a method of stone construction which produces a vaulted ceiling.
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j) a road surface marked with potholes
if this isn't it, I'm adopting it right now for our road surfaces
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I'll take d) a geological land feature formed by an oceanic eddy; when the sea level recedes the depression left behind is termed a grough, if I may.
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I'm for "B" quicksand sounds like the word when it sucks
something up.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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I'll take k) a method of stone construction which produces a vaulted ceiling.
(from the same people who brought you "coign")
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Chalk up another one for A
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I do like marsupials, but F is lovely. so, F.
formerly known as etaoin...
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gee Buff I'll take it then! I like small burrowing animals and possums. G for C
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hmmm...I'm stuck between I and D...and B...oh this is so hard to choose! hmmm I think I'll go for...I...D...I...yes I vote for I
----The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false----
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I will say, grough (growff) is how I felt, trying to decide on the real def.!
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 Have a tumbler or two of the definition c)(pron.grog) and all your pains will be forsaken. All submitters + one hogmaster have voted. (good of you) I don't expect a wild bunch of random voters will add much to it, so in the weekend I will set the Hog free with blessings to go wherever the long and muddy road will take'm.
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Very difficult to decide.
I used to eat the New Jersey version of a) after work, in my early 20s, when I worked 3rd shift; Ballantine Ale over Cap'n Crunch. I might have had a glass of c)-like liquid later in the day when the sun was over the yardarm.
However, I think it's i).
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Excuse me for not being able to count beyond 10. Of course, your vote was still missing. 
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Are the polls officially closed yet? Because I want to say what I would have voted for if it hadn't been for...
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The fact that you knew the answer? Fire away. Not closed yet. You may even change if your reason is valid.
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Nope. I don't know the definition. I'm not going to say anything until the polls are closed. I don't want to deter anyone from voting for an otherwise fine definition.
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Come on then Faldage.....vote then.
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Good. Polls are closed. Results in about 10 to 12 hours.
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Come on then Faldage.....vote then.
I already voted once. What is this, early and often?
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OK. Polls are closed. I would have voted for I if mountaineering had been spelled right.
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heh. blame it on Bran's (olde?) dictionary.
grough [grʌf]
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) Mountaineering a natural channel or fissure in a peat moor; a peat hag
[possibly the same as grough, an obsolete variant of gruff in the obsolete sense: "rough" (of terrain)]
Collins English Dictionary
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Thank you for your patience. And thanks for letting me know 'timely'. I must have had a blind spot for that syllable. Can I offer an extra point to Faldage for detecting the error (even though points don't matter ?)  ( I think I need glasses)
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