[Fictionary] J is for ... a ballot!!! (finally!)

[Hutch]

At long last, a ballot. Again, my apologies for letting this round run on
the way it did.

Let's give it a week for voting, so please have your votes in by the end of
the day, Saturday, April 4th. I'll tally the votes sometime on Sunday. As
usual, give 2-point and 1-point votes (plus as many amusing tie-breaker
votes as you wish). Give them to the group of three, rather than to
individual fictionitions.

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jack - n. - A smooth stone disk fastened to a piling of a jaseran to keep
rodents from entering.
jamb - v. - To fasten netting to the slat walls of a jaseran so as to allow
air to enter, in order to dry the grain, but keep flying animals out
jaseran - n. - An elevated granary built on pilings.

jack - v. - [fr. Malay] - to dive for pearls
jamb - n. - [fr. Malay] - a black pearl
jaseran - n. - [fr. Malay] a pearl thief

jack - n. - The inner bark layers of a Stone pine (Pinus pinea).
jamb - n. - The outer bark layers of a Stone pine (Pinus pinea).
jaseran - n. - A style of chair popular in Moorish Spain whose seat is
formed from overlapping jack and jamb.

jack - n. - a special type of incense used at certain Indian wedding
festivals. Jack is slang for many different varieties, but usually flowery
and spicy, not intoxicating.
jamb - n. - the liquid oil poured sparingly over jack to activate the
fragrance and make it smoulder.
jaseran - n. - the container, usually ceramic with inlaid metallic bits, in
which jack and jamb are co-mingled.

jack - n. - Genre of power noise music developed in the 1970s as an
outgrowth of the California proto-punk movement.
jamb - n. - A breadboarded RC (resistive-capacitative) unit used to
customize or distort the sound of early Ampex multitrack recorders,
repopularized in the retro-noise esthetic of the 1990s.
Jaseran [styled lowercase jaseran] - Mononym of keyboardist and recording
engineer Jason Emkanian, best known for his avant-garde and noise rock work
at Grey-Grey-Grey recording studio in Modesto, California, circa  1995-2005.

jack - n. - A cigarette rolled in birchbark.
jamb - v. - To soak a cigar in dilute ether in order to tighten the wrapper.
jaseran - n. - A humidor with a clockwork mechanism to slowly roll the
cigars

jack - n. - medieval leather coat worn as armour
jamb - n. - metal leg-armour
jaseran - n. - fine chain mail jacket

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P.S. An interesting combination of the two interests that got me into this
group in the first place: maps and words. Check out
http://www.what3words.com. What's it for? When you need to meet a friend at
the largest mall in the US, don't try to tell them the southeast corner.
There are (at least) six entrances you could describe that way. Just say to
meet at "modify.acoustics.knitted". That three word address identifies a
specific spot, 3-meter square. If anyone cares my front door is at
"pundits.interacts.inflicts", but my kitchen is at "fight.among.groovy". (I
like the last one better :-D ) (Nope, nowhere near the Mall of America;
heck, nowhere near ANYTHING!!! :-)

BB,
Hutch

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