[Fictionary] Attap Ballot from Linda

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ATTAP BALLOT1] Attap, n. A small sack, often used for catching wild game. **********************2] Attap, n.  (Wales) The small plot of land permitted to a tenant farmer to raise produce and livestock for personal consumption. ************************3] Attap, v.  To bind bamboo, especially for construction. ***************************4] Attap, n.  Corn, beans, and squash, cooked together and dried, used as food by Algonquian and Iroquoian people when traveling or going to war.  *************************5) Attap, n.  Roofing material from the nipah palm. Found in swamps in parts of Malaysia. ************************* 6] Attap, v.  [from odia atappo, to cook or stew in a closed pot, atap; a stew with prawns and vegetables from tamil attappi, to cook] to stew meat and vegetables after marinating for several days, a style of cooking in southern India and popular in some districts of London and Bristol.  ***************************7] Attap, n.  an apparently powerful blow that is actually harmless.  v.  to perform the attap.  ****************************8] Attap, n.  Coarse yarn made from corn silk.  **********************************Thanks for you defs.  Please, voters, assign one or two points to favorite defs.  	
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