Word For The Day, Thursday 11/07/02

The Verbivores | 11/07/02

[Bella_Bru]

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “word for the day”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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trammel\TRAM-uhl, noun:

1.A kind of net for catching birds, fish, etc.
2. A kind of shackle used for making a horse amble.
3. Something that impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
4. An iron hook of various forms and sizes, used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire.
5. An instrument for drawing ellipses.
6. An instrument for aligning or adjusting parts of a machine.

As a transitive verb:
1. To entangle, as in a net; to enmesh.
2. To hamper; to hinder the activity, progress, or freedom of.

Etymology: Trammel is from Old French tramail, from Late Latin tremaculum, a kind of net for catching fish, from Latin tres, "three" + macula, "a mesh."

Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!

[Bella_Bru]

Good Morning!

[Bella_Bru]

Good Morning!

[xsmommy]

good morning miss bella!

[Bella_Bru]

Dues to the fact that teacher has been in meetings all week, every student gets an A for their homework from Mon, Tues, and Wed.

[xsmommy]

i posted this in the old classroom, so let me bring it over here.

[Bella_Bru]

Good Morning!!!! Ok, I am off to battle the freeway, see you all in about an hour and a half.

[hobbes1]

From Page Six

"THE stunning election-night success left White House spokesman Ari Fleischer feeling a little bolder in his usual testy briefing with reporters yesterday. When Helen Thomas, the dean of the press corps - who is more outspokenly liberal than her peers - asked Fleischer if George Bush believed the election results gave him a "mandate" for "going to war with Iraq, privatizing Social Security, weakening the Civil Service Commission and so forth?" Fleischer told the ancient reporter: "Helen, you sound like a commercial that didn't work." "

[xsmommy]

While getting his agenda passed is not guaranteed to be untrammeled, President Bush sure has much better odds with the incoming Congress than he has in the past!

[TxBec]

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[Cyber Liberty]

Hey, cute-stuff! What's up?

[Slip18]

Good morning, Miss Bella.

How goes it today?

[xsmommy]

are you done being tiled, cyber? i am fine, this is a busy week.

will we have the pleasure of your (and the lovely miss slippy) company at CPAC this year?

[Cyber Liberty]

Dunno 'bout the CPAC yet. We wanna.

The tile will be finished today. It's all been cut and cemented, it just needs grout. Main area of living room grouted yesterday, and it looks darned good.

[xsmommy]

don't let me see you and the Bot running around in your socks on that tile, slipping and sliding. someone will crack their skull open....

right miss slippy?

[fifteendogs]

The democrats used to go out of their way to trammel the rights of the american people then they got their butts trampeled in the last election.

[Slip18]

You're right. Socks are not good on tile. Quite slippery! But my bare feet work well. It is beautiful.

Got the one area of the wall that was behind the bookcase painted already, Cyber. I've already gone over all the "holidays" in the other walls. It's hard to see, though, because it's overcast here.

[xsmommy]

will we have a pic of the completed job? pretty please?

[Cyber Liberty]

Damn. I better check the staple gun out when I get home. I might need to use it.

Hey, is cybersis still on with the walk-through?

[Cyber Liberty]

We have a roll of pics ready to develop, and the other's still in the camera.