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Greying_Geezer
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Retired professional engineer living near Toronto, Ontario, Canada with an on-going interest in the English language and somewhat of a facility for proofreading.
January 2013
14 hours ago
Latest Entries: 12 total
rizz | Personal style, charm, attractiveness, or the ability to attract romantic or sexual partners. |
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) |
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. |
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) |
fish-eye lens | an extremely wide-angle photographic lens with an angle of view usually between 100° and 180°, although lenses encompassing 280° exist |
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 |
fisherman knit | a type of thick, ribbed knitting done primarily with heavy yarn in cable stitches |
fisherman's knit | See fisherman knit. |
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 |
fisherman's brewis | cod fish cooked with hard tack or sea biscuit and pork fat |
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