[Fictionary] travisher results and Possible New Word!

[Hutch]

Not the highest point in the sky, but at the same clock time during
the course of a year. You can get the same shape by mapping (or
photographing) the sun in the morning or evening and get the analemma
to touch the horizon. http://www.field-notebook.com/?p=84

If you map the sun at noon, the shape actually indicates that all but
four days of the year the sun will be slightly ahead or behind the
zenith, the actual "highest point".

BB,
Hutch

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On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:34 AM, lindafowens at netzero.com
<lindafowens at netzero.com> wrote:
> arytRats! My latest favorite!  Linda
>
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> From: fpoodry at speakeasy.net
> To: "lindafowens at netzero.com" <lindafowens at netzero.com>
> Subject: Re: [Fictionary] travisher results and Possible New Word!
> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:31:18 +0000
>
> Analemma is a sort of figure 8 shape made by the sun if you map its highest point in the sky during the course of a year.  I don't know the other two, though.
> -Fran
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> From: "lindafowens at netzero.com" <lindafowens at netzero.com>
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> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:26:15
> To: <fictioneric at cluemail.com>
> Cc: <fictionary at swarpa.net>
> Subject: Re: [Fictionary] travisher results and Possible New Word!
>
> Yikes! I have a number of "snakes" in my possession, or rather scattered about the porch for future projects.  One has been twisted into a wreath, as yet unadorned.  I have seen such walking sticks, but not lately.  Most of the vines here in Exeter, RI, are bittersweet, but at the Narragansett house they might have been grapevine.  AS for Possible New Words, does anyone know  1) Analemma, 2) Coof, or 3) Flam?  Linda
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: fictioneric at cluemail.com
> To: fictionary at swarpa.net
> Subject: [Fictionary] travisher results
> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:55:12 -0400
>
> It's a runaway win for Linda, and her twisted-branch walking stick!
>
> ------
>
> Real def is "a convex spokeshave used to shape the buttock hollows in
> the seat of a wooden chair." The wording is mine, since I couldn't
> find it in a dictionary, but here's one description, with pictures,
>    http://toolmonger.com/2010/07/16/the-chairmakers-travisher/
> of the travisher (and the scorp).
>
> Using the word "buttock" in my wording seems to have garnered the
> real def a few extra points. Next time: no buttocks.
>
> 1 Linda, 1 Judith, 2 Pierre, 2 Nora, 1 Elliott.
>
> Linda: "and one point for the seat maker for using words like
> 'spokeshave' and 'buttock hollows."
>
> Judith: "1 point, because I like the idea."
>
> Nora: "2 votes! buttocks definitions win in my book!"
>
> Elliott "How *do* they do that, anyway?  One point."
>
> ------
>
> Nick:
> travisher, n.  1. One who exaggerates or invents facts.  2. A "yellow
>     journalist".  Am. Eng. ca. 1897.
>
> 1 Jim, 1 total.
>
> ------
>
> David:
> travisher, n. (Australian dial.) Roadkill.
>
> 1 Nora, 1 total.
>
> Nora: "1 vote. I guess dead animals are second to butts in my scheme
> of things!"
>
> Jean-Joseph: "Too soon for more Strine."
> ------
>
> Ranjit:
> 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.
>
> 2 David, 2 Linda, 4 total
>
> David: "2 points, and admiration."
>
> Hutch: "Boring! Even if it's real it shouldn't be."
>
> ------
>
> Hutch:
> travisher, n.  One who lies by telling an incomplete truth; more
>     generally, a highly convincing liar.
>
> 2 Ranjit, 2 total.
>
> Ranjit: "2 points for self-reference (and if i'm wrong, i get 2 points!)"
>
> ------
>
> Jean-Joseph:
> travisher, n.  A counterfeiter who hand-paints currency, stamps, etc.
>
> 1 Pierre, 1 total.
>
> ------
>
> Pierre:
> travisher, n.  A farmer who sells young birds for other farmers to raise
>     to maturity.
>
> 2 Jim, 1 Hutch, 1 Jean-Joseph, 2 for correct choice, 6 total.
>
> Jean-Joseph: "My girlfriend likes this better than the spokeshave, so
> it gets one point."
>
> ------
>
> Linda:
> 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.
>
> 2 Hutch, 2 Jean-Joseph, 2 Judith, 2 Elliott, 1 David, 1 Ranjit, 1 for
> correct choice, 11 total.
>
> Hutch: "I'm still doubtful, but I DO like it: 2 points"
>
> Jean-Joseph: "Sounds just fine, two points."
>
> Judith: "2 points, because I owned one of those in my youth, but I
> didn't have a special name for it."
>
> Ranjit: "1 point for eponymy"
>
> Elliott: "I like it!  Two points."
>
> ------
>
> Over to you, Linda.
>
> --
> -- Eric   |   fictioneric at cluemail.com