[Fictionary] YARAK ballot

[Jim Moskowitz]

One authentic YARAK definition and ten submitted impostors are below, 
with minor formatting adjustments for consistency. Please submit a 
2-point vote and up to two 1-point votes (note the slight 
modification to the normal voting system) by Easter Sunday, April 
20th.


yarak, n. A felted boot.

yarak, adj. Prone to excessive blinking.

yarak, n. An Aboriginal tool for digging insects out of trees.

yarak, n. (fr. Ar.) A log for recording nightly astronomical observations.

yarak, n. (fr. Turkish) The rose-petal dross discarded in the 
manufacture of attar of roses.

yarak, n. The practice of recording a contract by storing identical 
copies in mated parrots.

yarak, n. A drink made from fermented dates, drunk by Assyrians to 
celebrate the new moon.

yarak, n. (falconry) A super-alert state where a bird is hungry, but 
not weak, and ready to hunt.

Yarak, n. A broad, flat basin within the Gobi Desert characterized by 
saldgine clay. [Mongolian, Late 19th Century]

yarak, n. A traditional strawberry meal eaten as part of the spring 
strawberry festival among Northeastern US indigenous peoples.

Yarak, n. (1) A hard ball, made of animal hide, used by the Chulym 
Tatar people of Siberia in the sport of the same name.  (2) A sport, 
similar to polo, indigenous to the Chulym Tatars.



-Jim