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Apologies - wrong topic, now posted here!
What an ingeneous lot you are. A high quality selection for you, votes to me by Thursday 2.00 pm GMT, which may allow some of you early risers in US to vote on Thursday. I am away Friday hence the early voting. I may get another round in (if I can think of a word), but then I am away for 3 weeks so I'll have to pass it over anyway.
Good luck! Rod.
saraad
1 - A fine levied by ancient Welsh courts and paid in cattle.
2 - The whip used by jockeys riding racing camels.
3 - From Arabic. A war fought merely to fight, as opposed to a jihad, which is holy.
4 - A colorful East African beetle prized as bait for fishing.
5 - A livestock pen constructed of rush- or osierwork.
6 - A group of rituals performed by a Muslim bride and groom with the help of their wedding attendants and the elders of the community.
7 - A deliberative body composed of Bedouin chieftains.
8 - An uncut and unstitched garment worn by head of households in India, counterpart of the sari worn by the matriarchs.
9 - A narrow sand bank at the outlet of a river.
10 - A tassel traditionally attached to a Bible or Koran as a built-in bookmark.
11 - A formal greeting by persons of the opposite sex.
12 - A Scottish word for frightened, alarmed.
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just for fun (and 'cuz I'm bored with thinking about conspiracies) heres a play-by-play analysis:
1) possibly...
2) do they really race camels??
3) aren't all Arabic wars considered to be holy, or at least blessed by Allah?
4) that sounds like a scarab
5) I don' thin' so
6) ...
7) ...
8) a good one, but I don't believe it
9) I'm sure there's a word for this, but this ain't it...
10) another tassel? nope... [but I wish I knew the word for this, it'd be a good wwftd]
11) ...naah.
12) maybe...
there's a lot of sentiment here for "southern" concepts, but I kind of like the north... I think it's one of the bookends, 1 or 12. I'm going to say 12.
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7, if only because it would make great beat poetry.
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I'm convinced that all these Muslim and Asiatic definitions are red herrings, so I've got it narrowed down to no. 1 and no. 5. I really like five, but I'm voting for no. 1.
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Dem's fightin' words. Gimme a 3.
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This sounded somewhat familiar when I first heard it. I'll go with 11.
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