<div dir="ltr">All~<div><br></div><div>First a confession, I included two definitions that explicitly marked themselves as not serious because I wanted to see what would happen.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>
Actual - 11 pts</div><div>cathead - n. A horizontal beam extending from each side of a ship's bow, used for raising and carrying an anchor.</div><div>- I'm having trouble picturing this. It sounds like the beams stick out to port and starbord. But (a) I can't recall seeing such things in ship pictures, and (b) it seems like you'd want to suspend the anchor from as close as possible to the fore-aft axis of the ship, so that its weight doesn't tend to roll the ship as the anchor is raised or lowered.</div>
<div><br></div></div><div><div><br></div><div>David Randall - 2 pts + 2 for correct definition = 4 pts</div><div>cathead - n. [English naval slang] Scarring formed after flogging.</div><div>- Eeeuuw! Another kind of nautical cat.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><div>David Van Stone - 1 pt +1 for correct definition = 2 pts</div><div>cathead - adj. Used to describe a path which has a single perpendicular turn.</div><div>- I've heard people call this a ``knight's move'', after the way that knights move. Why would they call it a ``cathead''?</div>
<div>- Two catheads make a dogleg?</div><div>- <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Probably just a pun on dogleg.</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Elliott Morton - 3 pts</div><div>
cathead - n. A used baseball that is no longer spherical.</div><div>- Crabbed pedantry will object that new baseballs aren't spherical either, because crabbed pedantry doesn't play much baseball.<br></div><div><br>
</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>JC Ravage - 9 pts + 2 for correct definition = 11 pts</div><div>cathead - n. A landform that is a peninsula at low tide and an island at high tide.</div><div>- Cool concept. Semi-plausible because of the way ``head'' can mean a bit of land that pokes out into the water.</div>
<div>- Believable because of head as in point.</div><div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div>Jeff Hutchinson - 1 pt + 2 for correct definition = 2 pts</div><div>cathead - n. [colloquial from Central Appalachia] Cattail root, esp. raw in a salad. </div>
<div>- Are they edible?</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Jim Moskowitz - 2 for correct definition</div><div>cathead - n. Popup or popunder clickbait.</div><div>- Hunh. Like the Cheshire Cat's head, it just sort of hangs there?</div>
<div>- Inspired by catfishing?<br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Joking Linda - 1 pt + 2 smart ass votes</div><div>cathead - n. A litter box on a ship used by the ship's cat.</div><div>- This used to confuse me no end when I was a kid. Kittens, everyone knows, come in litters. Cats have litter boxes. And yet adults will point to something and call it ``the litter box'' when it contains no kittens.<br>
</div><div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Josh Smift - 1 smart ass vote</div><div>cathead - n. The opposite of a cattail.</div><div>- It's good to see that the fictionary list has not lost its interest in speculative philosophy. What is the opposite of a cattail? Is it not that which has every property that a cattail lacks, and lacks every property that a cattail has? And is not one of the latter, the property of being conceivable by the human mind?<br>
</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><div>Linda - 1 pt + 1 smart ass vote</div><div>cathead - n. A negatively charged wire formerly used in television sets that had tubes. Often, a series of these wires.</div><div>
- Portmanteau of cathode + lead?<br></div><div>- CATHODE and CATWHISKER.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Nick Ward - 1 pt + 2 for correct definition = 3 pts</div><div>cathead - v. To build an earthen fortification.</div>
<div>- Kudos for being a verb, but I don't see anything to make it plausible.</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><div>Pierre Abbat - 0 pts</div><div>cathead - n. [Old Irish, from Latin cathedra] The office of a bishop in early Scotland and Ireland.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Ranjit Bhatnagar - 3 smart ass votes</div><div>cathead - n. [Irish, pronounced 'chaw'] the head of a cat</div><div>- "Cat" does mean "cat" in Gaelic, but the word for "head" is "ceann" or the like. The closest spelling that could be pronounced "chaw" is "teadh".</div>
</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Having tied the actual definition with 11 points, JC is a pretty clear winner for this round. Unless you count Ranjit taking a plurality of smart ass votes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Matt</div></div>