Turned this up deleting old email

dewlap (DOO-lap, DYOO-lap) noun

A loose fold of skin hanging under the neck of an animal such as cow,
rooster, lizard, etc. On birds, this appendage is also known as a wattle.

Living in the Mojave I would have pictured the lost and dehydrated desert hiker having emptied the last can of beer in his backpack waking in the morning to eagerly address the deposit nighttime humidity might have left on the upturned leaves of deeply rooted native vegetation

By the sheerest coincidence:

This week's theme: words for odds and ends.

gnomon (NO-mon) noun

1. The raised arm of a sundial that indicates the time of day by its shadow.

2. The remaining part of a parallelogram after a similar smaller
parallelogram has been taken away from one of the corners.

I would have envisioned an English-speaking Scotchman disagreeing with someone or possibly the hiker's reaction after finding no such deposit

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