Vote! Vote! Vote! For BARBOLA WORK!

[eLLioTT morEton]

Fewer people have voted so far than entered defs!  This is intolerable! 
It makes a mockery of our democracy!  To the polls!  Vote!  Vote! 
Vote!!!!

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barbola work (n.) -- A type of tile arrangement used by the Romans in their 
baths. There was often much decoration using colored tiles and fragments, plus 
swirled patterns.  Barbola was originally a slave captured off the coast of 
Sicily, who found favor with Augustus Caesar for his splendid craft.

barbola work (n.) -- (colloq.)  A complicated task, "harder than untangling a 
wet beard".

barbola work (n.) -- Minor tasks assigned to new workers on a ranch, to give 
the animals a chance to gradually become accustomed to their smell.

barbola work (n.) -- Decorative work composed chiefly of flowers and fruit 
modelled in a plastic paste and colored, used to embellish small articles of 
wood, glass, pulp, etc.

barbola work (n.) -- In Jacobean and Restoration drama, interludes of flowery 
and witty but inessential conversation, introduced to lengthen a play and, 
often, to allow an older work to be republished and re-presented as a new 
production.

barbola work (n.) -- (metallurgy) - A surface hardening technique in which 
numerous small protrusions are repeatedly extruded from the surface of the 
piece and flattened out again.  See also "shot peening".

barbola work (n.) -- (obs.) Work performed by an inmate of a debtor's prison 
that does not accrue to the indebtedness, work performed by an indentured 
servant that does not reduce the indenture; substinence work.

barbola work (n.) -- (boxing term, after heavyweight Emilio Barbola) to knock 
out an opponent's teeth in the boxing ring.

barbola work (n.) -- Art done with a kind of enamel that forms bubbles as it 
dries.

barbola work (n.) -- A "cush job", involving a high salary and little-to-no 
expenditure of energy.

barbola work (n.) -- In the garment trade, decorative stitching on the rear 
pockets of a pair of pants, esp. blue jeans.  From Barbola S.p.A., an Italian 
manufacturer of automated embroidery machines from 1968 to 1973. Also used by 
industrial garment workers to refer disparagingly to less-demanding jobs in the 
factory.