[Fictionary] "And for DULE ... The envelope please: ..."

[Hutch]

With 8 points, all in 2-point votes, Nicolas Ward is this round's winner.

Not as much in the way of smart-aleck comments this time as we often
get. The only general sort of comment (not related to a specific
definition) was from Judith:
     What have you got in here that caused my spam blocker to grab this???

At a guess, I would say that the umlauts in Jacob's pronunciation may
have made it look like a bit of foreign spam. Anybody else have this
problem?

Further notes on specific fictionitions below.

BB,
Hutch

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dule - n. - A non-physician childbirth attendant. v. To attend and aid
a woman in labor.
Source: Judith Schrier
2 + 1 (for a correct vote) = 3
fictioneric: 2 -- Two points. Although maybe my points shouldn't
count, since I recognize the word now, though I've always seen it
spelt "doola".
Pierre Abbat: Midwife. You're thinking of a doula.
Fran Poodry: Hmm, this is a doula. It does sound similar, but I have
not heard it as a verb. I don't want to vote for it because if it is
right I will feel like I cheated.
Jacob Mattison: Presumably related to "doula", but I don't buy it as
an alternate spelling.

ED NOTE: Some people found it believable because it was like "doula";
others didn't?

dule - n. - (Mil slang) The round ball atop a flagpole. According to
the most common version of the legend, some German-Americans were
installing a flagpole near Bayonne, NJ before a crowd of GI onlookers.
The ball dropped, and one of the workers cried, "Ach, du lieber!".
Source: lindafowens
1
Jacob Mattison: One point for the laugh.
Fran Poodry: Um. Riiiight.
Nicolas Ward: Believable up until the origin explanation :oD.

dule - n. - (Acadian; < Fr: dule 'bear cub') - a mischievous child.
Source: Ranjit Bhatnagar
4 + 2 (correct vote) = 6
David Randall: 1
Fran Poodry: 2 -- I will go for this one, for 2 points.
Nicolas Ward: 1 -- Seems plausible.
Pierre Abbat: I never heard of that word for a bear cub; I thought
they were oursins, or something like that.

dule - n. - (< Lat: dolere 'grieve') - a group or company of doves.
Source: Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms (fr Book of St.
Albans, 1486; also "dole")
Ranjit Bhatnagar: 2 -- I don't believe it's true, but I like the
derivation a bunch. 2 pts!
Judith Schrier: 1
Jim Moskowitz: 1
Pierre Abbat: Only mourning doves, I suppose?
Jean-Joseph Cote: Google sez: unclear. There are a few other things
that it can mean, and the etymology for a meaning of "sad" seems to
match the dove thing, even though--no, wait, when I search for "dule
dove" it does show up. (I will note, though, that most collective
nouns for animals are bogus.)
Nicolas Ward: Isn't this just a flock?

ED NOTE: J-J is absolutely right. Most collective nouns for animals
are bogus. So far as I can tell, there must have been a fad of coming
up with such words in (about!) the thirteenth century. They wrote 'em
down and published them and everybody since has insisted, "These are
the *RIGHT* words to use for a group of [animal X]." ... Even though
most of them are never used by anybody EXCEPT for writers of books of
collective nouns. Nonetheless, it is a valid dictionary entry, if from
a somewhat obscure dictionary ;->

dule - adj. - 1. Stodgy, prudish. 2. Lethargic.
Source: Jean-Joseph Cote
2
fictioneric: 1 -- One point, for not being a noun.
Fran Poodry: 1 -- Ooh, an adjective! One point.

dule - n. - [döö lä'] (< Lat: ducto leguleius) archaic slang for a not
guilty plea, when homicide is justifiable due to adultery.
Source: Jacob Mattison -- 'This was mine. I don't know latin at all,
but ran across "ducto: to lead home a wife, to cheat" and thought that
would be amusing.'
0

dule - v. - Stitch multiple layers of cloth together.
Source: Nicolas Ward
8
David Randall: 2
Pierre Abbat: 2
Jean-Joseph Cote : 2
Jim Moskowitz: 2
Fran Poodry: Um, quilting?

dule - n. - (< Gael: dhiulle) - the six-handed Irish harp. The
medieval originals ranged from six to eight feet in length, although
modern exemplars have been built up to twelve feet in length.
Source: David Randall
3
lindafowens: 1
Jacob Mattison: 2 -- Simultaneously goofy and plausible.
Pierre Abbat: Caol le leathan. Do you mean "dhuille"?
Fran Poodry: hahahahahahaha

ED NOTE: I have to admit that Fran's response is exactly my reaction
when I got this definition. "Six-handed harp" *ROFL*

dule - n. - A horse-driven timber windlass.
Source: fictioneric: 'I should note now that there are such things,
although the real word is "whim" or "horse whin".'
4
Pierre Abbat: 1
Jean-Joseph Cote : 1
Nicolas Ward: 2 points -- I feel like mechanical things tend to be
shorter words.
Fran Poodry: Replaced by the steam engine.

dule - n. - A monk who assists other monks in a large scribal project,
such as compiling a concordance.
Source: Pierre Abbat
2
Judith Schrier: 2

dule - n. - a measure of the degree of feathering of the floats of a
paddle wheel.
Source: Fran Poodry
3
Ranjit Bhatnagar: 1 -- Ahead one half, two and a quarter dule. One point.
lindafowens: 2 -- 2 points for the paddle wheel feathering measure
(sounds Suessian)

Although he did not submit a fictionition, Jim Moskowitz gets a point
for making a correct vote.