[Fictionary] CAXON ballot (due 2/14)

[eLLioTT morEton]

Dear Fictionary,

I have CAXON ballots from

  Jean-Joseph
  Pierre
  Joshua
  Eric
  Ranjit
  Hutch

Any more?  The polls will remain open till 11:59 on Saturday in case
more people want to vote.

Regards,
Elliott

On Wed, 8 Feb 2023, eLLioTT morEton wrote:

> Dear Fictionary,
>
> The nine candidates for CAXON are listed below, without party
> affiliation.  I have regularized the punctuation and capitalization at
> the start of the definitions.  Usual one- and two-point votes, plus
> any awards you may wish to give or comments you might feel moved to
> utter, are due in a week, i.e., by the end of Valentine's Day.
>
> Regards,
> Elliott
>
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> caxon, n.  A glass cork, usually decorative. often used with model
> ships in bottles.
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> caxon, n.  An early moveable-type printer, named for its inventor
> Jakob Caxon, of Danzig; it enjoyed a brief period of popularity in the
> late 1400s-early 1500s until losing ground to other printers due to
> labor requirements.
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> Caxon, n.  A constructed language in which each word ends with a check
> letter to prevent misspellings.
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> caxon, n.  The traditional hussar braiding of a horse's mane.
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> caxon, n.  The circular inverse of a rectangular lattice, with a
> tangle in the middle, produced by inverting the complex
> arithmetic-geometric mean.
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> caxon, n.  1.  A kind of wig, now obsolete.  2.  A case or chest of
> ores prepared to be refined.
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> caxon, n. (informal) A cascade sonogram, or (less frequently) a
> cascade sonography device.
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> caxon, n.  A tongue tattoo.
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> caxon, n. (arch.)  A square plinth on which an urn is placed.
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> Plus one bonus joke def from Ranjit:
>
> joke def: a very loud wassail song
> (from klaxon + no el, of course, plus 'wassail' suggests 'wail' for
> extra noise)
>