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a. A case with slits or thin straps inside used for storing cutlery
b. a pointed, bladed tool used in shaping clay; a potter's knife.
c. A Scottish oath used by Robbie Burns in a little known verse:
As I were feaning ma wa doon hich strait,
After quaffin a huagskn o mardeen,
I opt didn’n sait mais truppit tae lait
An sprollit arl iver ma chinnakeen.
Ach cullet! Ahrve drappit ma eyenpeers
En’ brakkit te pains eyen betha ma seers!
d. a small herring-like fish native to the North Atlantic
e. In dressmaking, a tuck made in the bodice of a garment for the purpose of fitting it to the female bosom.
f. n; the tip of a ramrod, usually fashioned of animal fur or some other soft material, used for cleaning an artillery piece of residual powder between each shot
g. Pieces of broken glass used in making new glass
h. Specialised copper pans in a variety of sizes for poaching flat fish such as flounder. The rhomboid shape mimics that of the fish and reduces the amount of liquid required.
i. The inside area of sharp "u" shaped (a "hairpin") turn or curve in a road.
j. The unwanted remains (usually small) eliminated during a sorting process.
k. The very tight vest worn by astronauts and cosmonauts to cut down on decompression problems during EVA.
l. Young cockerels before they have grown the distinctive rooster-tail of feathers that marks maturity.
Definitions provided by: AnnaStrophic, Bingley, dxb, Elizabeth Creith, Faldage, musick, sparteye, TEd, WO’N, wofahulicodoc, Zed
You have the traditional 7 nights to guess which is the correct one.
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B for me is the rest of my life.
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> the rest of my life
G'night, Vern ;)
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great defs, but C for me. that's just great!
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Gee, these are good definitions.
And though I probably voted for the wrong one, I know I have heard that word before. My brother used to haul glass making materiel, and it may be that he mentioned this term at one time or another.
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C is above and beyond. I love it. Well done! However, I'm not gonna vote for it; it's too good to be true. I almost went for H and then L but the plural form in both dissuaded me.
My vote is for B.
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E for me, tee. I mean, "too."
And what a marvelous set of choices!
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I gotta go along with the general consensus that these are all great definitions. I was also put off by the number mismatch in H, but I like it a lot otherwise. I hadn't noticed it in L, but there it is. C had me rolling in laughter, I could just hear some Scottish stage comedian reciting the poem.
Well, I guess push has come to shove and I like I.
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If'n it ain't C it oughtta be!  That bein' said I'm a-takin' K because it's too precisely dull in tone to be wrong. All great def's...seems like a lot of us have become pros at Hogwashery! 
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I'll vote for J - sounds like a collective noun, like "flock"
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I think I'll let my dog choose ....
*snuffle* *snuffle*
Jeffy says - as indicated by the dog goo on my screen - that E is the answer.
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I assume one is ineligible for this contest if one knows the meaning of "cullet" without looking it up. I am inclined to disqualify myself on this basis but there are so many entries, perhaps it is permissible to feign ignorance of the meaning of the word.
Can one feign ignorance by choosing correctly, passing the choice off as random chance?
If one feigns ignorance by choosing incorrectly, how can one hope to win this game?
A very perplexing challenge you have presented to us, Bingley.
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If I know the meaning I will usually feign ignorance by choosing the definition I find most original and well-crafted. One wins the game by offering a definition that is original and sufficiently well-crafted to attract the most votes from those who are or are not feigning ignorance. If one has not submitted a defintion of one's own one has no hope of winning. I say all this for the benefit of any newbies who may not fully understand the rules of this game and not for anyone who is feigning ignorance of them for whatever reasons of his own.
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Your explanation is very helpful, Faldage.
I cannot speak for anyone who might be feigning ignorance of the rules, of course.
I have never played the game myself before, nor have I ever seen any rules of the game before, let alone any explanation of the rules of the game.
I always assumed the game was something conceived for the amusement of insiders.
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"the game", known hereabouts as hogwash®, is a total ripoff of the commercial game Balderdash®, which itself was torn whole from from Wilbur Webster's Dictionary Game (Copyright © 1987), which we used to play with pencil, paper and a dictionary when we were kids (the 60s). not knowing any better, we called it the dictionary game.
we were an odd lot, even then.
-joe (hogmaster®) friday
(this failure to capitalize on the commercial prospects of something we played as youngsters ranks just behind our failure with a game we called Minnesota Eights, in which nearly every card in a 52-card deck came to have a special meaning; e.g., reversing the direction of play, causing people to skip their turn or draw cards and skip their turn, exchanging hands or portions thereof, etc. also, when a person got down to one card, she had to call "last card" or when exposed, draw one and skip her next turn. is this mindful of Uno® yet?)
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Wish I hadn't used babylon immediately. But having done so I must praise the publisher! No one had even suggested the correct answer as an option! Well done!
As for def C - I am going keep it in my private collection
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Wish I hadn't used babylon immediately. But having done so I must praise the publisher!
Welcome, AA. I don't understand the above; would you expound?
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Does this mean Asaf Add voted for "C"? I'm guessing Bingley got his daffynition too late.  BTW - Welcome to the broad(sic).
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Wish I hadn't used babylon immediately. But having done so I must praise the publisher! ~ AAWelcome, AA. I don't understand the above; would you expound? ~ AnnaSI guess the reference is to this: http://www.babylon.com/But what daffynition to choose? O gee! That's hard. (No, no, ogee is 'S', but it doesn't go up to 'S'.)
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Thanks, dixbie.
Is the site Max-worthy?
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> Max-worthy
looks to be a pay site with a downloadable program.
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Last call for votes. 24 hours to go.
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