[Fictionary] HOUGHMAGANDY ballot

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Thanks to all who added definitions since my last pitiful appeal.  In 
return, a prompt ballot.  Definitions below (what, it ends in a "y" 
and no-one submitted an adjective?), two- and one-point voting as 
usual.

Votes due in eight days, by close of business on SUNDAY, 22 July.

Houghmagandy, n. The traditional Cornish New Year's Day celebration, 
observed on the 18th of December.

houghmagandy, n. Thatch that has collected smoke from burnt peat and 
is removed from the roof and used as a fertilizer, as is done in the 
Outer Hebrides.

houghmagandy, n. The set of parrel beads deployed at the jaws of the 
gaff on a gaff-rigged or gunter-rigged craft.

houghmagandy, n. An ocean swell of significantly greater height than 
those around it.

houghmagandy, n. A figured horseshoe that imprints the ground with 
words or other symbols.

houghmagandy, n. (Ir. Gael.) a tin pot or dish, esp. one repaired repeatedly.

houghmagandy, n. (Scots dial.) 1. Cheap whiskey. 2. A student party 
at term-end.

houghmagandy, n. A long-handled steel mallet used for tapping rails 
during inspection of a railway under construction, allowing the 
inspector to use the sound as one indication of substandard work.

houghmagandy, n. Adulterous sexual intercourse.

houghmagandy, n. (Brit. mil. slang) Greengrocer. [Corrupted from the 
name 'Huma Gandhi', supposedly the proprietor of a fruit stand 
outside the British East India Company's barracks in Calcutta.]

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