[Fictionary] LIMBERHAM results

[Elizabeth Heffner]

Votes and comments for LIMBERHAM

Well met once more, fellow word-loving humans.     A very British round
reared its head, politely, this time around.   The winner by the tiniest of
nose tips, was Ranjit B with 7 points, followed at a sportsmanlike gallop by
 Eric C with 6 points and a slightly more sedate canter by David R with 5
points.

Ranjit was also awarded no fewer than three Gosports.

General comments:

Jim: As someone who was born and raised in the Philadelphia suburb of
Cheltenham (pronounced not "CHELT-num" as the British do, but
"CHEL-ten-ham”), I was expecting a bunch of British Isles definitions. And
I was not disappointed!
Hutch: Well, it looks like almost everyone thought it sounded generally
British.

In fact, the correct definition, which received 0 votes, was:

 n. a supple-jointed person; figuratively: a fawning, obsequious person.

Nicholas: More literally limber.
Jim: Much too on the nose. A limber ham!
Hutch: Hmm, too literal. Don't think so.

Onward now to that which is delicious and fictitious!

Linda O
n. A small village in Kent, England, known for its sweet hops.

Nicholas: It does sound like a town.


David R:  5 points
(Liverpool dial.)  n.      1) (fr. Limberham’s Extra-strength Turpentine,
ext. 1826-1932) strong turpentine; 2) strong, foul distilled spirits; 3)
strong, foul tea.

Hutch: This just feels believable: turpentine lending its name to other
strong-, foul-smelling liquids. 2 points.
Ziv: One point for the years of operation of the company. I suppose the
great depression hit the turpentine industry as much as anyone else!
Ranjit: i always like defs that have a literal and then an analogical
definition! 2 points.


Nicholas W: 2 points
n. in mortise and tenon construction, a small extension piece added to a
beam or other member that was cut too short.

Nicholas: mine!
Jim: 2 points!
Hutch: It seems like such an extension would tend to defeat the whole
purpose of the mortise and tenon???

Jim M: 3 points
n. a cotton twill hat traditionally worn in southwest England.

Nicholas: Another English place, but sounds the most plausible to me.  2
points!

Eric C: 6 points
n.  genericized mark name for heavy-duty triple-wall cross-corrugated
cardboard.

Eric: My def. I hadn't planned it, but was so pleased to get to use three
compound adjectives in a row.
Nicholas: Seems too specific to have its own name but probably this is real.

Hutch: Boring! Which means that it's probably real.
Ranjit: 1 point, so convincingly boring
Elliott: 2 points for *not* being limber.


Pierre A:
n. (from the fish market in Limberham, a town on the River Limber) any of
the ships that sail up the River Limber selling fish caught by doggers.


Nicholas: Another English place name!
Hutch: Moderately sure that there is no River Limber ... at least, not one
that reaches the sea (any of them)


Ranjit B: 7 points
n. (also “Limberham  tube”) a speaking tube used in early aviation for
communication between seats of open-air aircraft.


Ziv: This is just the right amount of quaint and just the right amount of
feasible for me (knower of nothing about aircraft) -- 2 points
Eric: Brilliant. *Exactly* what the word sounds like it should be. Two
points.
Nicholas: I’ve seen these at the Museum of Flight I think? 1 point.
Jim: I love the image, and it likely existed, although I bet hand signals
were more effective given the engine- and wind-noise. 1 point.
Pierre: Gosport award.
Fran: Gosport (from when that was the fictionary word, waaaaaay back in the
day.)
Elliott: Wait a minute, don't I know you from somewhere?  Gosport, that's what
you called yourself back then.  What's all this about Limberham?  One  point
 for old time's sake.


Jeff H:
n. a style of dance music, characterized by a 7-beat time signature,
briefly popular in northwestern England, southwestern Scotland, and the
Isle of Man during 1820-1840; thought to be of Turkish origin.  Named for
the Limberham Arms, an Ullock pub where it was said to have originated.


Nicholas: English place name!
Hutch: Mine.


Fran P: 2 points
adj. describing either screws with a specific, irregular pentagon
indentation or screwdrivers with the irregular pentagon shape required to
insert into the corresponding screws. Rarely used.


Nicolas: Archaic pentalobe?
Jim: Honorable mention for going with an adjective.
Hutch: Boring! Which means it's probably real ... but which one ... so
neither 😊
Pierre: two points. I've seen screws with three radial slots at unequal
angles, presumably because the matching screwdriver is so rare that a thief
wanting to steal bathroom stall walls would be unable to remove them.


Elliott M: 1 point
n. a bishop's mitre with attached artificial muttonchop whiskers (From the
1866 novel of the same name, a satire against Samuel Wilberforce by
"T.H.H.".)


Nicholas: Another hat, but sillier. Somehow this is probably real.
Jim: Dr.  Moreton, I presume?
Hutch: I don't believe it for a second, but too funny not to get points: 1
point
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