[Fictionary] Cathead: Definitions

[Matthew Fowles Kulukundis]

Given that some of the answers are deliberately silly, I will go with a
2-point vote, a 1-point vote, and an optional smart-ass vote.

Matt


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Jim Moskowitz <jim at jimmosk.com> wrote:

> Is this using the most common voting scheme (everyone gets to give a
> 2-point vote and a 1-point vote), or one of the other schemes that get used
> from time to time?
> -Jim
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>  All~
>>
>> The voting will be open for 1 week, plus however long it takes me to
>> tabulate and send an email!
>>
>>
>> cathead - n. A negatively charged wire formerly used in television sets
>> that had tubes. Often, a series of these wires.
>>
>> cathead - n. [colloquial from Central Appalachia] Cattail root, esp. raw
>> in a salad.
>>
>> cathead - n. A litter box on a ship used by the ship's cat.
>>
>> cathead - n. Popup or popunder clickbait.
>>
>> cathead - n. [Old Irish, from Latin cathedra] The office of a bishop in
>> early Scotland and Ireland.
>>
>> cathead - n. A horizontal beam extending from each side of a ship's bow,
>> used for raising and carrying an anchor.
>>
>> cathead - n. A landform that is a peninsula at low tide and an island at
>> high tide.
>>
>> cathead - n. [Irish, pronounced 'chaw'] the head of a cat
>>
>> cathead - n. The opposite of a cattail.
>>
>> cathead - adj. Used to describe a path which has a single perpendicular
>> turn.
>>
>> cathead - n. A used baseball that is no longer spherical.
>>
>> cathead - n. [English naval slang] Scarring formed after flogging.
>>
>> cathead - v. To build an earthen fortification.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Matt
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