[Fictionary] AFICOT Ballot

[Elizabeth Heffner]

Thank you to everyone who sent in a definition for AFICOT.

Here are the contenders (plus real definition).  Please give two points to
one definition and one point to another.   Feel free to add any comments,
thoughts, poems or whatever you feel inspired to share.

The deadline for receipt of  votes and comments is Friday 12th June. Thanks!

Liz




Aficot, adj: filled to less than half capacity, usually in regard to a
vessel for holding liquid.

Aficot, adj: (British army slang) engaged because the lady was pregnant.

Aficot, n: 1. a bell hung as a clapper in a larger bell. 2. a pair of
identical bells hung side by side so as to rebound alternately off each
other.  3. a pair of argumentative guests, neither of whom will let the
other have the last word.

Aficot, n: any of the early, small dropped fruit resulting from too much
pollination which drop off the tree to ensure a crop of larger fruit.

Aficot, n: a string, leather thong, or metal cuff placed at the ankle to
prevent socks from slipping.

Aficot, adj: (botany) having pairs of unequally sized embryonic leaves.

Aficot, n: the smeared fruit exudate inevitable upon consuming a
particularly juicy fruit.

Aficot, n: (computational geometry) The affine cotangent.

Aficot, n:  (lacemaking) a wooden burnishing tool in the form of a lobster
claw.

Aficot, n: the double crown worn by Carolingian kings in the 700s, formed
by combining the crowns of Austrasia and Neustria.

Aficot, adj: having exactly three prime factors.

Aficot, n: a sock-like sleeve used to protect the lower leg of a horse from
extreme cold, flies, or infected wounds or sores.
Aficot, n: a living box made by growing fruit trees espalier-style on all
sides of a wooden structure, then removing the inner structure.

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