[Fictionary] turbary (with commentary)

[lindafowens at netzero.net]

Dear Josh, Although I respect  your right not to vote, I think you should at least give points for absurdity.  That's why I play this game, as evidenced by my entry.  I was trying NOT to win because I was very busy, so I put in a terrible def, LInda.  Also missing bayberries along the path to my neighbors' from too much building of alpaca pens--they now have 70 critters.  PS Busy mourning the aftermath of several hurricanes as well.  I was personally affected by a friend in St Thomas, USVI,  who made it thru the two storms but when last heard from had 13 family members plus dogs and cats staying with her at her house because her house sustained the least damage.  My husband was more affected by the brother of one of his employees losing his new bride on Puerto Rico during their honeymoon.  The guy simply stopped coming to work because of grief.  Sorry, but I had to unload.  L

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Josh Burdick <jburdick at keyfitz.org>
To: fictionary at swarpa.net
Subject: [Fictionary] turbary (with commentary)
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 22:29:50 -0400


Here are the revised counts. Re-checking the bit bucket, I find more votes from Elliott as well, along with director's-cut commentary.
I think that JimM won this, but leave the list moderator to make that call.
turbary - adj. - A body ornament worn like a bracelet around the leg, just above the knee. 
 Jean-Joseph's. Nick (1), Linda (2) . Some asked why it doesn't slide down.
 
 Elliott: "What keeps it from sliding down?  Turbary garters?"
 Pierre: "How do you keep it from falling down?"
 
turbary - n. - an ecclesiastical official charged with insuring consistency of decisions by all 
 the courts spiritual within an archdiocese. 
 JimM's. Nick (2), David (1), Pierre (2)
 
 Elliott: '``Courts spiritual'' is a nice touch, but there are other defs that look more etymologically plausible. '
 
turbary - n. - a stew of mixed songbirds David's. Elliott (1)
 
 Elliott: "Not a syllable wasted.  One point!  (Maybe from TURDUS?) "
 Pierre: "Four-and-twenty songbirds turbed in a stew..."
 
 Nick wrote: "Looks like we've got a... repeat definition." I believe that he meant that this definition was disturbing, like Fran's definition. My personal opinion is that such a stew is fairly tame for a fairy tale, but admittedly it's been a while...
 
turbary - noun(plural turbaries).1.land, or a piece of land, where turf or peat may be dug or cut. 
 2.(Law) the right to cut turf or peat on a common land or on another person's land. 
 The correct definition, guessed by David and Elliott (for two points apiece).
 Pierre also wrote (without, as far as I understand, allocating any points): "Une autre tourbe de sphaigne. I'm guessing that this is the real one."
 
 Elliott expounds (presumably this is the bit that persuaded my tiny mailreader's mind that his message was spam):
 "
 Oooh!  This sounds very plausible.  Two points and a powdered wig for Def #2 all by itself.  What a vast world of Blackstone fanfic it opens! 
 
 A _turbary glebe_, where the parson has to live entirely on the proceeds of a peat bog.  An _easement of turbary_, the right to cross another's land to get at your peat.  _Turbary estray_, the right to any foreign peat that somehow turns up on your land.  The First Statute of Turbaries (6 Eliz. I, c. 21, "An Act to relieue turf-cutteres wrongfully confined"), which provides that a man may recross another's land while carrying the very last slice of turf, notwithstanding that by cutting it he extinguishes the turbary and therewith the easement by which he entered. 
 
 And of course the Second Statute of Turbaries (8 Eliz. I, c. 1, "An Act to relieue the distresse of many parrishes, long without their preestes"), amending the First Statute of Turbaries by empowering the equity courts to aid those who, on realizing their predicament, had angrily flung the crucial last slice over the property line, where the neighbor had seized it by right of turbary estray. 
 "
 
 

 turbary -- (adj.)Â  Of cheese, filled with bubbles of pressurized gas which 
 burst audibly when bitten into. Elliot's. 
 
 He asks:
 "
 No, seriously:  Why doesn't this happen in bubbly cheeses?  Why are the bubbles all at, or near, atmospheric pressure?  The cheese is in a wooden form, so it can't expand, and cheese shrinks as the water evaporates; how come that doesn't compress the bubbles?  Do any fictioneers know cheese? 
 "
 
 To this, Pierre bestows the coveted: "One point and the streuble-cabbaging-frogmouth award."
turbary, n. a small shrub with waxy gray berries, similar to bayberry 
 and used in the same way to make candles. Linda's. 
 
 Elliott: "bary/berry ... Never seen it before, so I won't swallow it.   (BERRY)"
 Pierre: "I don't have the Mary-merry-marry merger, so this doesn't sound, let alone 
 look, right."
 

 turbary - adj. 1. disturbing 2. abhorrent Fran's. 
 
 Elliiott: "Plausible, but I find your lack of peat disturbing."
 Pierre: "Disturbary."
 

 turbary, n. A cage or habitat for flightless birds. Nick's. 
 
 Pierre: "Isn't this a ratitary?"
 Elliott: "(Maybe also inspired by TURDUS?) "
 
turbary, n. A building used to dry peat in the Outer Hebrides. The peat is 
 used as fuel in the blackhouse; once the thatch of the blackhouse is 
 thoroughly saturated with peat smoke, it is removed and used as fertilizer, 
 and the blackhouse is rethatched. 
 Pierre's. Linda (1) 
 
 Elliott:"I usually am suspicious of defs that don't sound like they came from a dictionary, and this is one of them.  The word also sounds too Latinate for the Hebrides (vague memories of TORVUS, or something like that).  I like the idea of using your roof for fertilizer. "
 
 Pierre quotes Weston Price, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration:
 "It is replaced each October and the old thatch is believed by the natives to 
 have great value as a special fertilizer for their soil because of its 
 impregnation with chemicals that have been obtained from the peat smoke which 
 may be seen seeping through all parts of the roof at all seasons of the year."
Lastly, Hutch casts zero votes for any of them: "Absolutely none of them are believable this time!"
Josh
 
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