[Fictionary] Happy Koontingsgiving

[Nicolas Ward]

Get your votes in by Friday! Thanks for the many great defs.

koonting, n. (fr. Dutch) Homewrecker. Rumor has it that the bastard Piet de Koonting, a natural son in -- or just out of -- the royal family in the 1800s, took it upon himself to seduce as many of the local married women as he could. Eventually, the local cuckolds murdered him in a slow, appropriate, and unprintable way.

koonting, n. 1. The act of improperly shoeing a horse, whether intentionally or through negligence, such that the shoe is thrown sufficiently far from the smithy as to make it inconvenient or impossible to return. 2. A crime committed in such a way as to prevent the victim's discovery of the crime until too far from the scene to return in a timely fashion.

koonting, adj. Of or pertaining to the lower of two high tides occurring during a day.

koonting, n. A lavender-scented, cone-shaped confection popularized by Dutch and Belgian immigrants to the United States. From Dutch "koontje", "little cone".

koonting, n. A three-string guitar-like instrument used in West African music.

koonting, n. The transverse bar at the bow of a dogsled that transfers load from the harness to the frame and runners.

koonting, n. (fr. Dutch) Pipe tobacco mixed with cinnamon and nutmeg.

koonting, n. A position available for a new apprentice in any of several medieval guilds.

koonting, n. The tendency of a ship sailing east or west outside the Tropics to veer towards the Pole, owing to the faster accumulation of barnacles on the shady side of the hull.

--Nick