[Fictionary] wind trolley ballot

[Ranjit Bhatnagar]

WIND TROLLEY BALLOT!  You know what to do.  Do it before the end of the weekend.


wind trolley (n.) -- A spring-powered clockwork credenza on wheels,
invented by Sir Henry Cavendish to shuttle food and dishes between
kitchen and dining room without intrusion by servants.  Also called
"deadwaiter".



wind trolley - n. - A device that rides on a kite string and is driven
upward toward the kite by the wind.  Upon reaching a button on the
string near the kite, it furls its wings and descends back to the
kite-flyer by means of gravity, to be reset and sent up the string
again.



wind trolley - n. - a device consisting of a box attached to a set of
grooved wheels with a sail; loaded onto a kite string, the box can
carry cargo up the kite string to the kite. In 1841, French
photographer Jacques du Jeanville attached an early camera to such a
device and obtained the first ever aerial photographs



wind trolley - n. - an iceboat using a kite for propulsive power. This
design was common in the mid 19th to early 20th centuries, but has
largely been replaced by sail power, which permits tacking against the
wind.



wind trolley, n. A small spring-powered cart used to carry items on a
track in a factory. It is wound with a crank and placed on the track
that leads to its destination.



wind trolley - n. - A string and button (to go in the lapel button
hole) that prevents your hat being blown away by the wind.



wind trolley, n. A skilled goalkeeper in football (soccer),
particularly one known for long airborne dives. From the Ukrainian
VB5 at 2V7:8.



wind trolley, v.  to wind the wire on the crank of a mail trolley, as
in the kind used to deliver mail in a box over a stream in a rural
setting.  Very common in outback Australia.  They pun with upwind and
downwind to designate the to and fro directions from one side of the
stream to the other.



wind trolley, n. On a rigid airship, the armature used to launch small
fixed-wing aircraft. Loose translation of the German term
"Hochgeschwindigkeitsluftstromwaggon".



wind trolley - n. - a tea tray with an insufficient quantity of canapés.