<div dir="ltr">Please assign 2 points to one entry and 1 point for another entry. Please return your completed ballot by the end of MONDAY, December 12, so I can release the results on TUESDAY, December 13th.<div><br></div><div>So far I have votes from: Ranjit, Linda, Pierre, Hutch, and Jean-Joseph.</div><div><br></div><div>-Fran<br><div><br></div><div>__________________________</div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-m_3769067392174422730gmail-docs-internal-guid-0fce8b13-da43-1b3e-4c10-7afd8ce913c6" style="font-size:16px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">emberlucock (n.) the male of the brownish-black variety of the ruffed grouse species. Found mostly in mud flats or deep woods, where the lack of white markings gives good camouflage. </span></p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">emberlucock </span><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(v.) to confuse or bewilder (nonce-word accredited to Rabelais, c. 1469) </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;white-space:pre-wrap">(adj.) turmoiled, blundered or pestered, as the brain about a troublesome business (as defined by Randle Cotgrave, c. 1611)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">emberlucock (n). a self-defense league of blackleg miners (Yorkshire dial.; etymology unknown)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">emberlucock (n.) a patented smoldering cuckoo clock, used to light the fire and boil the coffee before the household awoke. (19th c)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">emberlucock (n.) a visual disturbance in which one hallucinates birds.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">emberlucock (n.) corruption of ambrecoq. An early French cannon. Used heavily during the Siege of Barcelona when Louis XI sold weapons to both sides of the Catalan Civil War. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">emberlucock (n.) a boot or gauntlet molded from rigid resin directly onto the foot or hand that cannot be removed without destroying it. Most often used for single-use armor, occasionally in fashion applications.</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">emberluckock (v.r.) 1. to become trapped in a waistcoat by eating so much that the buttons cannot be unfastened. 2. to unwittingly take up a responsibility that cannot easily be got rid of. </span></p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><span style="font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">And a silly def: emberlucock, n. A secret fire-type Pokémon unlockable only at the South Pole.</span></span><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU" style="margin:2px 0px 0px;font-size:16px"></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><i>Fran Poodry</i></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><i>Oregon, USA</i></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><i><br></i></div><div style="font-size:small"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-size:14px;line-height:18px">“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” </span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-size:14px;line-height:18px">― </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/61107.Margaret_Mead" style="color:rgb(102,102,0);text-decoration:none;font-size:14px;line-height:18px" target="_blank">Margaret Mead</a></font><br></i></div></div></div></div></div>
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