[Fictionary] breastsummer ballot

[Melissa Shaner]

Oh, reality, you are so plausible.  The dictionary wins by a mile.


Nick and David tie with 3 voting points and 2 correct-guess points, and even Linda's phantom votes don't help break it, so please work it out between you.


Melissa




breastsummer (n) - a horizontal beam supporting a wall over a large opening, such as a shop window.
REAL DEFINITION -- 10 points
Ranjit - 2
Nick - 2 "Two horizontal beam definitions? I'm going to assume that the collective subconscious is right. Plus carpentry already talks about groins, so..."
David - 2
Eric - 2
Jim - 2 "Two horizontal beams? Can that just be coincidence? I'm going to vote for them both."
Pierre - "I'm not voting for this because I know about "summer", the construction term."
Jean-Joseph - "Hmmm, two beams. Maybe there's a root word here I'm not recognizing."

breastsummer (n) - a waist-length eucharistic vestment worn by bishops of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches. It has long sleeves and a small ornamental hood, open in front to show the alb and pectoral cross. Usually of satin, it may be trimmed with fur. In the Latin rite of the Catholic church, canon law dictates a scarlet breastsummer with mink or ermine edging for the Pope, black or dark grey for all other bishops, with optional trim of any dark fur for Cardinal bishops. It is to be worn only by the celebrant or concelebrant of a mass.
ERIC + 2 for correct guess

breastsummer (n) - an arrangement of straps used for carrying a machine gun tripod.
JEAN-JOSEPH -- 3 points
Pierre - 2 "Two points for having nothing to do with any meaning of 'breast' or 'summer' that I know."
Fran - 1

breastsummer (n) - a temperate microclimate found on sunny alpine meadows surrounded by tall icy peaks.
FRAN

breastsummer (n) - [poetic] late spring, the period immediately after planting is completed.
HUTCH - 1 point
Jean-Joseph - 1

breastsummer (n) - workplace slang: The person in charge of mannikins in a department store. Often this office includes counting up the totals in each department, plus the storage area of plastic nude bodies, for the store is often the victim of theft/practical jokes involving said mannikins. 
LINDA - 1 point
Ranjit - 1
Jean-Joseph - "There's undoubtedly some joke that could be constructed here where the punchline would be, 'Just count the boobs and divide by two.'"

breastsummer (n) - a horizontal beam in a knight's house on which the knight hangs the front part of his cuirass.
PIERRE - 3 points
Nick - 1
David - 1
Jim - 1
Jean-Joseph - "I went to a costume party in Provincetown where I was the back part of a... never mind..."

breastsummer (n) - the embolismic 13th month in a proposed lunisolar calendar developed by Benjamin Franklin ca. 1780 while serving as Ambassador to France
NICK - 3 points + 2 for correct guess
Eric - 1 "For embolismic, although how a month can promote embolisms is beyond me."
Fran - 2
breastsummer - n. (Irish dial.) - a lame sheep.

DAVID - 3 points + 2 for correct guess
Pierre - 1
Nick - "It's probably going to turn out to be this one."
Fran - "Simplicity admiration."
Jean-Joseph - 2 "Probably."
 
Linda - ?HI, Missed voting,as we were away by train mostly to the confluence of the Potomac and Susquehanna rivers for a wedding in Charles Town, WV, near Harpers [now spelled without an apostrophe] Ferry. I would have voted for the knight's armor's hanging place and the machine gun straps , as we ended up at Antietam Battlefield by chance and heard about the bloody battle there. Mostly I was interested in the wildflowers. Later did the interesting if small John Brown Wax Museum in HF and AT headquarters. Back late last night. LInda PS Great odd use of breast and summer.?