Fw: Dandy Roll Ballot

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DANDY ROLL BALLOT----August 15, 2007
            Please have your votes--ones and twos-- in by Wednesday, August 22, midnight or so.
1)      dandy roll, n.  A decorative filigree of intersecting squares or rectangles.  Fr. dents du roi, king’s teeth.
2)      dandy  roll, n.  A stunt maneuver in which the pilot does a half-loop and a half-roll, resulting in a vertical u-turn. Like many stunts, it was pioneered by Adolph Pegoud  (1889-1915) in 1913, but has been the “dandy roll” in the US since American stunt pilots, returning home from WWI explained it to each other as having been developed by a “French dandy”.
3)      dandy roll, n.  A roll of fabric decorated with lace, used as a decoration on dresses.
4)      dandy roll, n.  (Slang) An excessively elegant piece of luggage, used by young men in the early 19th Century.
5)      dandy roll, n.  A hobo’s bedroll, esp. the contents of the bedroll.
6)      dandy roll, n.  A pickpocket who specializes in robbing wealthy, drunken youths.
7)      dandy roll, n.  Columnar formation typical of a hypermafic lava extrusion.
8)       dandy roll, n.  In papermaking, a cylinder that puts on the watermark. Also dandy-roll, dandy roller.
9)      dandy roll, n. (Cowboy slang)  A bed, esp. one located in a hotel or brothel. 
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