Good grief!!! I just now realized I've made a huge gaffe! I could swear I typed "throstle," but I see that's not the case. Would an administrator please correct it?
For those of you who've already submitted daffynitions (including the right definition) please revise your submissions if you feel you need to. Also, I seek the definition you did NOT submit. There are two.
Geoff I edited your post as you requested. However, you can always edit your own posts; just click on the edit icon, the second icon at the bottom right of your post. It looks like folder with a pen or perhaps an eraser.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
I regret my erroneous original spelling, and my forgetting the commonly known definition which some, if not most, of you know. Bonus points if you know them both.
1. An iron transverse support for a trestle or bridge.
2. A type of thread spinning machine.
3. Northern English dialect word for a thrush.
4. To rudely push people out of your way.
5. A table used by thatchers to trim reeds to the correct length.
6. A small songbird found mostly in the West of Scotland.
7. v.t., to narrow or choke; alt. for THROTTLE.
8. (arch, coll) 19th-c term for a rude jostle delivered by a male to a female, where the identity of the throstler is hidden by a crowd.
Thinking out loud: -- 1 is unabashed about exploiting "trestle" to attract a Feeling of Rightness -- 2 invokes thimble and thread for the same purpose -- 3 and 6 are the same and thereby disqualify each other. 4 and 8 ditto ditto -- 5 thatchers and trim... -- 7 brazenly suggests throttle -- 9 Doesn't sound like slang - too many syllables for slang. Doesn't rhyme with anything Cockney I can think of...
Don't like it, but it's all that's left.
Hoist by my own petard! I'd rather it be 4 or 2, but the process of elimination says I have to vote for 9. If that's the right answer it's purely by induction, not knowledge.
Except...isn't West of Scotland North of England? (Pardon my USian lack of sensibililty - insert "UK" wherever appropriate, even though in some respects it's not so U)
As some of you know, one definitionis a thrush, regardless of where said bird lives.
The other definition is #2, a spinning machine. How the term came about I know not, but I found it in the book, The Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert.
Because I still don't know how to cutand paste stuff with this mouseless crotch top computer I'll let y'all tell us what daffynitions are yours.
