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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
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