[Fictionary] A man's comb is his hassle!

[Pierre Abbat]

The winner is Ric the Combmaker with nine points! But since he didn't play and 
is already very familiar with orlings and staddas, the next word picker shall 
be Fran.

I had "stadda" (from the OED) on my list for years before I ran 
across "orling" (a tooth of a comb) on Wiktionary.

Linda: Yikes! It's all gibberish.
Fran: NONE of the definitions looks real.  Oh well.
J-J (after voting): (Not easy to find this via Google, though an "orling" 
turns up as a "stunted child".  But I did find a reference to a "stadda" as 
a "double-bladed hand saw", so I think my guess was right.
(The stunted child is the other def of "orling". -phma)

stadda, n. A saw with parallel blades, used to make orlings.
by Ric the Combmaker. 9
Linda: Second is the double-bladed saw with one point.  Dang, no points left 
for the dragon def or the berserker victim.
Eric: Two points.  None are plausible, this at least is short.
Fran: 2 points
J-J: Two points.
Ranjit: 2 pts

orling, n. Tiny bell shaped flower extending from the stadda of a modified 
leaf, or a bunch of such flowers descending from the underside of a modified 
leaf.
by Fran. 6
2 points of saw blades
David: 1 point
Linda: I'm going to have to go with the bell-shaped flowers, as it's my best 
guess with 2 points.
J-J: One point.

orling, n. Eastasia stada topspeak.
by Ranjit. 4
2 teeth of a comb
Nick: 2 points for newspeak.

stadda, n. Old Austrian coin worth about 10 orlingen. Cf, more modern 
Oesterreichische schilling or Deutsche mark, which preceded today's Euro.
by Linda. 3
1 for combing her hair
Hutch: 2 points

orling, n. A practice wherein the presumptive winner of a competition donates 
a large prize for first place, in order to increase the prestige of the 
event, with the expectation that he will win it back.
stadda, n. An honor or title conveyed by a monarch on himself or his heir.
by Jean-Joseph. 2
2 for the two blades
J-J: Mine, inspired by my friend Teena Orling, who had a display cabinet in 
her house holding the trophies (engraved silver bowls, if my memory is right) 
that she had won at the annual Forest Park orienteering race in St. 
Louis.  (This was mildly surprising, since she has never been a top-tier 
orienteer, and she was a bit beyond top competitive age as well.)  Teena 
really believed in this event, and wanted it to be important, so had donated 
the prize every year.  I think it was lightly attended, and she always won 
(though I think she would have been more pleased if there had stiff 
competition).

stadda, n. (dial.) A stout tube of reed or cane, used formerly by inhabitants 
of the Fenlands to draw away mosquitoes by exhaling at a distance.
orling, n. (dial.) 1. A method of long-distance acoustic signaling through 
swampwater using bubbles blown by means of a stadda (q.v.).  2. (sl.) 
Inaccurate or incomprehensible talk; gibberish.
by Elliott. 2
David: 2 points
Hutch: [sings] "I'm Always Blowing Bubbles" *LOL*

orling, n. A sterile, female stadda (cf., freemartin).
by Hutch. 2
Fran: 1 point
Ranjit: 1 pt

orling, n. The child of an earl killed by a stadda.
stadda, n. A berserker who has killed an earl.
by David. 1
Nick: 1 point for having the right-sounding phonemes for the definition.

orling, adj. Of a dragon, actively venturing from its cave, feeding 
indiscriminately, acting combatively, and seeking to increase its hoard. 
Periods of a few months to a few years of orling can alternate with decades 
or centuries of stadda (which see).
by Eric. 1
Hutch: NICE!!! Even though I don't believe it, I've got to give this one a 
point: 1

Pierre
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Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.