[Fictionary] cutty-eye results

[Pierre Abbat]

On Wednesday, February 2, 2022 9:35:02 PM EST Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote:

> *Fran: 1*
> cutty-eye (n) - a void in a cake caused by incomplete mixing of
> ingredients, resulting in uneven leavening.
> * 1 point from Joshua
> * Pierre: Can you have cutty-streuble, cutty-cabbaging, and
> cutty-frogmouth? (This is a reference to my fictionary round from 2015:
> these are all various flaws of the voids in cheese. - Ranjit)

Which are called eyes.

> *Hutch: 3 = 2 + 1*
> cutty-eye - n. - a towing or lifting hook with a rectangular or
> (uncommonly) square eye. The shaped eye keeps the hook from rotating, thus
> reducing the likelihood of the line dropping off the hook when slack.
> * Ziv: A cool idea, but either I don't understand the setup, or I don't
> understand why the shape would help.
> * Elliott: I'm having trouble picturing this.  What would the hook
> otherwise rotate around?  What is ``the line'' --- the one that is tied
> through the eye of the hook, or the one that is hooked over the crook of
> the hook?

I think the line is hooked over the crook of the hook. If a line passed 
through the eye of the hook, it could turn upside down, which would deflipper 
the porpoise.

> *Pierre: 4 = 2 + 2*
> cutty-eye, n. The hole in the cathead through which the anchor rode passes.
> * Jim: Typo for rope?

No, "rode" is correct. There are few things called "rope" on a ship.

Pierre
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