[Fictionary] travisher ballot

[fictioneric at cluemail.com]

Here y'all go.  Get your votes in by 7 pm EDT on Monday, 11 April. 
As common, a two-point vote and a one-point vote.  Enjoy!



travisher, n.  1. One who exaggerates or invents facts.  2. A "yellow
     journalist".  Am. Eng. ca. 1897.

travisher, n. (Australian dial.) Roadkill.

travisher, n.  A pressure-sealed margin on a paper or plastic package.
     Named for Jessup K. Travisher (1910-1977), the manufacturing
     engineer who pioneered the process at Domino Sugar Co., New York.

travisher, n.  One who lies by telling an incomplete truth; more
     generally, a highly convincing liar.

travisher, n.  A counterfeiter who hand-paints currency, stamps, etc.

travisher, n.  A farmer who sells young birds for other farmers to raise
     to maturity.

travisher, n.  A convex spokeshave used to shape the buttock hollows in
     the seat of a wooden chair.

travisher, n.  A cane or walking stick made from a "snake", or ingrown
     set of twisted branches or vines.  Made popular by Sir William
     Travisher (1813-1888) of Kent, England.


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