Greying_Geezer's entries
Here's the list of entries submitted by Greying_Geezer — There are currently 12 entries total — keep up the great work!
rizz | Personal style, charm, attractiveness, or the ability to attract romantic or sexual partners. | added 6 days ago |
tesseract | A way to travel through time and space using a fifth dimension. (Source: Anna Quindlen in a 2007 Appreciation of _A Wrinkle in Time_ by Madeleine L'Engle, 1962) | added 8 months ago |
mangle | A pair of rollers, driven by a hand crank or electrically, that squeezed water out of wet laundry. In the days before spin dryers came into use, a mangle was typically attached to a laundry washing machine and mounted above it so that the person doing the laundry would lift the wet laundry from the washer and feed it directly into the rollers, with the water squeezed out dropping back into the laundry machine. | added 10 months ago |
ecotourism | All nature-based forms of tourism in which the main motivation of the tourists is the observation and appreciation of nature as well as the traditional cultures prevailing in natural areas. (World Tourism Organization) | added 11 months ago |
fish-eye lens | an extremely wide-angle photographic lens with an angle of view usually between 100° and 180°, although lenses encompassing 280° exist | added 1 year ago |
fisherman knit | a garment, especially a sweater, created in the fisherman knit style, i.e. thick, ribbed knitting accomplished primarily with heavy yarn in cable stitches | added 1 year ago |
fisherman knit | a type of thick, ribbed knitting done primarily with heavy yarn in cable stitches | added 1 year ago |
fisherman's knit | See fisherman knit. | added 1 year ago |
fisherman's holiday | 1) an autumn holiday to mark the end of the fishing season and the return to England of the fishing fleet 2) forced cessation of fishing due to storms | added 1 year ago |
fisherman's brewis | cod fish cooked with hard tack or sea biscuit and pork fat | added 1 year ago |
country food | Canadian indigenous term for traditional food hunted, trapped or gathered from the land. | added 1 year ago |
riding | In Canada, an electoral district for Parliament (federal) or a provincial Legislature. | added 1 year ago |