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Posted: **Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:44 am**

Something for the weekend:

pinfold

â€¢ noun - a pound for stray animals.

â€¢ verb [with obj.] - confine (a stray animal) in a pinfold.

â€” origin late Old English pundfald, from a base shared by pond and pound + fold

Posted: **Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:30 pm**

tortfeasor

as in Married Women and Tortfeasors Act 1935

under which married women could be sued in tort (previously they could hide behind their husbands)

Posted: **Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:46 pm**

Here it is

Posted: **Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:16 pm**

Bless your cotton socks, Mary - how time flies...

With thanks to Kerren, I thought this deserved repeating:

necessitous

Posted: **Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:56 pm**

.........and try saying that word after a pint or three !

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