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

[eLLioTT morEton]

Dear Fictionary,

It's a week past the deadline, and I still have votes only from

+     1 Mar 22 Pierre Abbat                        (4786) Re: [Fictionary] 
+     2 Mar 15 Fran Poodry                          (12K) Re: [Fictionary] 
+     3 Mar 12 lindafowens at netzero.net             (8646) Re: [Fictionary] 
+     4 Mar  9 Ranjit Bhatnagar                    (4287) Re: [Fictionary] 
+     5 Mar  9 David Randall                       (4160) Re: [Fictionary]

If you vote, you can print the following and stick it on your shirt:

  _________
| I VOTED |
  ---------

Regard,
em


On Mon, 9 Mar 2020, eLLioTT morEton wrote:

> 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,
> em
>
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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.
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