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Let's try again.
The word is faldstool.
PM your daffynitions.
 
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Good news! I don't know this one. Big Grin
I'll have a definition with you as soon as I think of one.


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Isn't that a type of oyster from New Zealand?

I don't know it either, but I'll make up a dandy definition for it.
 
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Between the Bluffing game and the Limerick game, we've kept you busy, Bethree! Wink
 
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Anyone else for the bluffing game this time? The word is faldstool We have eight daffynitions so far-- could use 2 or 3 more.

Please PM a definition from your fictionary by the end of the weekend.
 
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sent one... now if I can just find some rhymes for babylon...


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You have mine also.

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okay, I'm in.


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LAST CALL!!

We have nearly a dozen entries. I'll publish the ballot at about 10pm EDT.
 
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Does anything rhyme with "faldstool"?
I'm stumped.
 
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Sorry folks my server went out last night.

Please select your choice for the correct definition of faldstool:

1. The portable collapsable seat used by the family of Paddy O'Furniture when celebrating St. Patrick's Day.

2. A D-handled adze.

3. A colonial-days ladder used to pick fruit from high up in trees.

4. Portmanteau term. A specious argument, from Sir John Falstaff and "stool," excrement.

5. A person who has been tricked or deceived into appearing or acting silly or stupid: to make a fool of someone.

6. The desk from which the Litany is read at church service

7. A stool used by C19 photographers to show female subjects' skirts to the best advantage.

8. A type of oyster mushroom

9. A small circular depression found in heathland.

10. To pen livestock in a fallow field as an aid in soil enrichment

11. A tool used by a Falder when falding
 
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There is something radically wrong with this list. I know FOR A FACT that a Faldstool is what French collaborators stand on when their head is put through the nous, and is then kicked out from under them.

This, of course, means they fall into a heath and make a depression, which is then covered with dirt, so I'll pick #9.
 
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Much as I love number 11, I'll go for 5 for no very good reason at all.


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My very good reason for picking Number FIVE is that I frequently feel like one.
 
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No doubt Proofreader used a D-handled adze to make the ladders he places the Frenchmen on for having committed the crime of making specious arguments in a swine pen.

For no particular reason I'll take #10
 
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I cannot understand why no-one's chosen #8 but I'm choosing #1.
 
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Now I know what the Beatles were referring to. Number 9.
 
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I don't believe it's any of them. However, on the assumption Bethree has hidden the real answer somewhere, I'll try 3.


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Ah, well. I'll choose, out of complete ignorance, #9.
 
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One of the few possibles that hasn't been chosen yet - 6


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I'm wavering between 6 and 8, so I'll choose 8 just to even things out.

(My daffynition's missing, BTW, but oh well.)

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it's a folding stool, in church; so I guess the only thing that comes close is no. 6
 
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#1: Jerry Thomas' portable Patty-seat gleaned Stella's ballot.

#2: Valentine nicely "dandled" the adze without being axed. No takers.

#3: Proofreader cherry-picked a vote from Arnie.

#4: Asa took a sample from Shakespeare-- it was negative.

#5. Kalleh made of fool of two someones: Bob Hale and Jerry Thomas. Nice going, Kalleh!

#6. Tsuwm, you are so right, & Myth Jellies too. A faldstool is basically a portable seat/kneeler. I chose to display the second, laconic definition, as the first gave way too much info ("a chair or seat, originally one capable of being folded, used by a bishop or other prelate when officiating in his own church away from his throne or in a church not his own"). Another definition notes that the new king/queen uses a faldstool when saying prayers at coronation.

#7. Can't imagine, in this secular age, why soap-opera scene-shooters shouldn't use faldstools to kneel at the hems of the starlets, Arnie-- guess you're a bit ahead of us.

#8. Surprising, Stella netted only Wordmatic's vote with her oyster mushroom.

#9. Bob Hale, I've been out here on the heaths all week, finding plenty of small, circular depressions-- oops, that was just where Proofreader, Valentine and Kalleh have been quietly banging their heads against the ground for having fallen for that bit of faux geology. THE WINNER

#10. Not to be outdone (well, OK, she WAS outdone), Myth Jellies entertains with a bit of agricultural composting. Asa bought in.

#11. As I remarked to Jerry upon receipt of his highly logical definition:
"My tool faileth," said the falder when falding
The fald with his faldstool, mood scalding.
"Tho I keepeth the tool
Polished bright as a jewel,
The blasted thing seems to be balding!
 
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Wow. Is Myth a woman? I'd always thought Myth was a man. Oh well.

Nice going Myth and Tsuwm! Tsuwm, it's not in your dictionary? I didn't see your dictionary listed in Onelook.
 
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if I added it (and I might), I'd prolly use this def'n from the Medieval Wordbook: A folding stool used as seat or as a lectern for a kneeling bishop.

but, there's often *months of delay between entries in my dictionary and getting updates indexed by OneLook. their database guy (they've hired the original founder) works on an 'as available' basis.

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