[Fictionary] SQUOYLE ballot (for Monday, March 16th)

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Dear Fictionary,

One- and two-point votes are due in a week, i.e., by the close of business 
on Monday, March 16th.  Ties will be broken on the basis of comments, 
light verse, correct authorship guesses, zero-point ``awards'', and other 
bric-a-brac.

Regards,
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squoyle, n. 1. A young squirrel. 2. One, esp. a courtier, who has lost the 
favor of the sovereign.
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squoyle -- n. -- An unexplained high-frequency radio signal observed 
briefly every 59 days, detectable only within a few miles of the equator.
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squoyle, n. A network of triangles in which every point, except those on 
the outside, is a corner of five, six, or seven triangles.
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squoyle -- an Oregon/Washington state/British Columbian wickiup made from 
evergreen boughs.
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squoyle (v.)  To throw a loaded stick or similar missile (at some object).
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squoyle (v.) - to play a squeaky cork in a bottle neck as an instrument.
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squoyle -- n. -- (Am. Plains states, especially south central Nebraska)
correct width of a quarter-section farm field, approx 2,550 to 2,600 feet.
(For unscrupulous surveyor: Berwyn M Squoyle, notorious for platting
approximately 600 square miles over a period of five years with short
measures in order to sell the "extra" sections for his own benefit;
murdered in July 1898 outside Ansley, Nebraska).
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squoyle -- n. -- A hand tool resembling a sledgehammer with a blade, used 
for cutting hot metal.
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squoyle - n. - contagious achondroplasia
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squoyle, n. An embroidery pattern consisting of multiple zig-zagging
over-under stitches.