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As per tsuwm's rules 4 & 5:
4. [no] points are awarded to any player who submits a definition which is similar or very close to the correct meaning [rather, the moderator shall request a resubmittal]
5. If two or more players submit a definition per rule 4 (in the judgment of the moderator), the round will be thrown out with no points scored
The correct definition is a type of Indian sabre.
Max submitted:
n. a type of sword. (from Skt.)
AnnaS submitted:
A medieval sword (from Sanskrit tul = tool; war = battle)
Possibly faldage's comment Your words tend to be harder to get a handle on than tsuwm's. is an oblique reference to the meaning.
I came across this word in G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown story "The Quick One":
For Oriental ornament pervaded the new scheme; and where there had once been a gun hung on hooks, and sporting prints and a stuffed fish in a glass case, there were now festoons of Eastern drapery and trophies of scimitars, tulwars and yataghans, as if in unconscious preparation for the coming of the gentleman with the turban.
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Is this the first time a round has been cancelled for this reason, or is it a not-infrequent occurrence that has just happened yataghan?
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Is this the first time a round has been cancelled for this reason, or is it a not-infrequent occurrence that has just happened yataghan?
It's a stinkng conspiracy that's what it is! Bingley has robbed me of a chance to actualy score a point or two by resorting to some arcane rule. I actually did resubmit another definition, but I guess the Zeroth Law of Hogwash is "that no Quordlepleen is allowed to score at Hogwash, even if preventing this requires the round to be cancelled."
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Hmm. Most of what I came up with, when I googled "tul" was in Hungarian, sans krit.
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Hmm. Most of what I came up with, when I googled "tul" was in Hungarian, sans krit.
I took a stab at the word based purely on its phonetic similarity to "talwaar" the Hindi word for any sword. I really had no idea that it WAS the word.
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So you all will never know just how clever and well thought out my entry really was. Alas.
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So, is someone going to offer up a replacement now that I have my computer rescued from cyberspirit world? It figures, every time I have to be away from here, somebody starts a Hogwash game 
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So you all will never know just how clever and well thought out my entry really was. Alas.
Sorry, Steve, I have no sympathy to spare for those less wronged than mineownself. 
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Just my luck too... I'd actually joined this round instead of just lookin' on! 
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Hey! At least post the definitions given so we can admire them and maybe guess whose is which!
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happened yataghan Hungarian, sans krit. HA! Y'all are good!  Yeah, post the def.'s anyway, please!
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First time I ever missed a cancelled Hogwash! 
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>>post the defs.
The hand was called: Fold (don't show).
P.S. Is "fold" related to "faldage"?
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Is "fold" related to "faldage"?
"Fold" as in "sheepfold" is. "Fold" as in "withdraw from a game" is not.
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Is this the first time a round has been cancelled for this reason, or is it a not-infrequent occurrence that has just happened yataghan?
well, there was this:
tetrapyloctomy was.. a hogwash word at one point, but that round was cancelled because too many people used the right answer as their definition.
..and I think poshlost was proposed but never got off the ground. there were probably others.
NOTE: round 61 is dead; long live round 61.
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Yah, the sheepfold "fold," thanks.
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The proposed definitions for tulwar received before the round was cancelled are:
a. Tulwar, a city in the Rajasthan state of North Central India, known for porcelain production.
b.a headwrap used by men of the Limpoho tribes in South Africa
c. a kind of agrarian reform through which serfs could be rewarded for yearly increases in production
d. a bowman
e. an instrument for pounding or braying substances in a mortar; a pestle
f.a monster found on or below the 37th Level of the Dungeons of Moria [not nearly as powerful as the Balrog, though]
g. N. A structure, usually of stone, used to control the flow of water from wells and springs.
Entries were submitted by belMarduk, Father Steve, insel, Marianna, max (resubmission), tsuwm, and wofa
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Thanks Bingley. I'd have had trouble deciding on a definition. All the definitions sound so plausible,,, well, except for the Dungeon of Moria one. I would have assumed that the [not nearly as powerful as the Balrog, though] was a "tell". Like a kiddy that keeps babbling on when he's trying to get away with something.
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