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<p>Here are the revised counts. Re-checking the bit bucket, I find
more votes from Elliott as well, along with director's-cut
commentary.</p>
<p>I think that JimM won this, but leave the list moderator to make
that call.<br>
</p>
<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">turbary - adj. - A
body ornament worn like a bracelet around the leg, just above the
knee.
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
Jean-Joseph's. Nick (1), Linda (2)
. Some asked why it doesn't slide down.<br>
<br>
Elliott: "What keeps it from sliding down? Turbary garters?"<br>
Pierre: "How do you keep it from falling down?"<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">turbary - n. - an
ecclesiastical official charged with insuring consistency of
decisions by all
<br>
the courts spiritual within an archdiocese.
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
JimM's. Nick (2), David (1), Pierre (2)<br>
<br>
Elliott: '``Courts spiritual'' is a nice touch, but there are other
defs that look more etymologically plausible.
'<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">turbary - n. - a
stew of mixed songbirds
<br>
</blockquote>
David's.
Elliott (1)<br>
<br>
Elliott: "Not a syllable wasted. One point! (Maybe from TURDUS?)
"<br>
Pierre: "Four-and-twenty songbirds turbed in a stew..."<br>
<br>
Nick wrote: "Looks like we've got a... repeat definition." I believe
that he meant that this definition was disturbing, like Fran's
definition. My personal opinion is that such a stew is fairly tame
for a fairy tale, but admittedly it's been a while...<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">turbary -
noun(plural turbaries).1.land, or a piece of land, where turf or
peat may be dug or cut.
<br>
2.(Law) the right to cut turf or peat on a common land or on
another person's land.
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
The correct definition, guessed by David and Elliott (for two points
apiece).<br>
Pierre also wrote (without, as far as I understand, allocating any
points): "Une autre tourbe de sphaigne. I'm guessing that this is
the real one."<br>
<br>
Elliott expounds (presumably this is the bit that persuaded my tiny
mailreader's mind that his message was spam):<br>
"<br>
Oooh! This sounds very plausible. Two points and a powdered wig
for Def #2 all by itself. What a vast world of Blackstone fanfic it
opens!
<br>
<br>
A <span class="moz-txt-underscore"><span class="moz-txt-tag">_</span>turbary
glebe<span class="moz-txt-tag">_</span></span>, where the parson
has to live entirely on the proceeds of a peat bog. An <span
class="moz-txt-underscore"><span class="moz-txt-tag">_</span>easement
of turbary<span class="moz-txt-tag">_</span></span>, the right to
cross another's land to get at your peat. <span
class="moz-txt-underscore"><span class="moz-txt-tag">_</span>Turbary
estray<span class="moz-txt-tag">_</span></span>, the right to any
foreign peat that somehow turns up on your land. The First Statute
of Turbaries (6 Eliz. I, c. 21, "An Act to relieue turf-cutteres
wrongfully confined"), which provides that a man may recross
another's land while carrying the very last slice of turf,
notwithstanding that by cutting it he extinguishes the turbary and
therewith the easement by which he entered.
<br>
<br>
And of course the Second Statute of Turbaries (8 Eliz. I, c. 1, "An
Act to relieue the distresse of many parrishes, long without their
preestes"), amending the First Statute of Turbaries by empowering
the equity courts to aid those who, on realizing their predicament,
had angrily flung the crucial last slice over the property line,
where the neighbor had seized it by right of turbary estray.
<br>
"<br>
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">
<br>
turbary -- (adj.) Of cheese, filled with bubbles of pressurized
gas which
<br>
burst audibly when bitten into.
<br>
</blockquote>
Elliot's.
<br>
<br>
He asks:<br>
"<br>
No, seriously: Why doesn't this happen in bubbly cheeses? Why are
the bubbles all at, or near, atmospheric pressure? The cheese is in
a wooden form, so it can't expand, and cheese shrinks as the water
evaporates; how come that doesn't compress the bubbles? Do any
fictioneers know cheese?
<br>
"<br>
<br>
To this, Pierre bestows the coveted: "One point and the
streuble-cabbaging-frogmouth award."<br>
<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">turbary, n. a small
shrub with waxy gray berries, similar to bayberry
<br>
and used in the same way to make candles.
<br>
</blockquote>
Linda's.
<br>
<br>
Elliott: "bary/berry ... Never seen it before, so I won't swallow
it. (BERRY)"<br>
Pierre: "I don't have the Mary-merry-marry merger, so this doesn't
sound, let alone <br>
look, right."<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">
<br>
turbary - adj. 1. disturbing 2. abhorrent
<br>
</blockquote>
Fran's.
<br>
<br>
Elliiott: "Plausible, but I find your lack of peat disturbing."<br>
Pierre: "Disturbary."<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">
<br>
turbary, n. A cage or habitat for flightless birds.
<br>
</blockquote>
Nick's.
<br>
<br>
Pierre: "Isn't this a ratitary?"<br>
Elliott: "(Maybe also inspired by TURDUS?)
"<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">turbary, n. A
building used to dry peat in the Outer Hebrides. The peat is
<br>
used as fuel in the blackhouse; once the thatch of the blackhouse
is
<br>
thoroughly saturated with peat smoke, it is removed and used as
fertilizer,
<br>
and the blackhouse is rethatched.
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
Pierre's. Linda (1)
<br>
<br>
Elliott:"I usually am suspicious of defs that don't sound like they
came from a dictionary, and this is one of them. The word also
sounds too Latinate for the Hebrides (vague memories of TORVUS, or
something like that). I like the idea of using your roof for
fertilizer.
"<br>
<br>
Pierre quotes Weston Price, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration:<br>
"It is replaced each October and the old thatch is believed by the
natives to <br>
have great value as a special fertilizer for their soil because of
its <br>
impregnation with chemicals that have been obtained from the peat
smoke which <br>
may be seen seeping through all parts of the roof at all seasons of
the year."<br>
<p>Lastly, Hutch casts zero votes for any of them: "Absolutely none
of them are believable this time!"</p>
<p>Josh</p>
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