Growler is a word I've had to define many time. Today, it's word of the day. Not sure there's a similar word for the container used to fetch wine. FYI, Montreal is fantastic. ----- Forwarded message from Wordsmith <wsmith(a)wordsmith.org> ----- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 00:18:04 -0400 From: Wordsmith <wsmith(a)wordsmith.org> To: jellings(a)me.umn.edu Subject: A.Word.A.Day--growler X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted by DNSRBL, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (smtp-relay.enet.umn.edu [128.101.142.227]); Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:46:38 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-Score: 0.257 () HTML_FONT_BIG,HTML_MESSAGE X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 128.101.142.227 This week's theme: Words having many unrelated meanings growler (GROU-luhr) noun 1. One that growls. 2. A container (as a pail or pitcher) brought by a customer to fetch beer. 3. A small iceberg. 4. A four-wheeled cab. 5. An electromagnetic device for testing short-circuited coils. [From growl, from Middle English groule, grollen (to rumble), probably of imitative origin.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=growler -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "When Euro-metal comes to mind it can often rouse visions of hairy, horn-helmeted growlers howling about faraway lands and legendary times." Fawnda Mithrush; Primordial: Thoroughly Modern Metal; Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada); May 7, 2009. "The two-story building will feature a to-go bar on the first floor for beer aficionados to buy and fill growlers." Rachael Fisher; Brewing Company on the Move; The Anchorage Daily News (Alaska); May 1, 2009. "We sailed the 30-mile stretch of the Atlantic Sound, otherwise known as Iceberg Alley. The smaller, granite-hard growlers are to be avoided just as deftly as the enormous floating glacial islands." Neill Johnston; Cool Cruise Among Ice and Penguins; Birmingham Post (UK); May 15, 2009. "So this growler will get into Audi R8 territory for about a third of the Audi's $130,000 starting price tag." Jeremy Cato; New Challenger Even Better; The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada); Feb 19, 2008. Sponsored by: Small Business Journal By Mike Nolan: The Human Side of Small Business http://smallbusinessjournal.wordpress.com/ Announce your products, services, or message here. Reach more than 700,000 people in this space. Write to: sponsorsATwordsmith.org (replace AT with @). ............................................................................ Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. -St. Augustine (354-430) Our privacy policy: AWAD mailing list addresses are never sold, rented, leased, traded, swapped, exchanged, or bartered. We hate junk mail. Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/growler.mp3 Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/growler.html Unsubscribe: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber-form.cgi?request=unsub&username=je… ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ------------------------------ * Dr. James Ellingson, jellings(a)me.umn.edu * * University of Minnesota, mobile : 651/645-0753 * * Great Lakes Brewing News, 1569 Laurel Ave., St. Paul, MN 55104 *