Everything that exists has a name. That's what language is all
about. But there are lots of things with names so obscure that
almost no one except dictionary editors knows them. Thus we have
words like whatchamacallit, whatsis, thingamabob, thmgamajig and
doohickey-those all-purpose words that mean "this little thing here
whose name I have temporarily forgotten or maybe I never knew in
the first place and I'll bet you don't either."
Here are 12 words I'll bet you never heard of-names of things that
are all around you. Your job is to figure out what these things are
and then substitute the definition number into the "coordinates"
below.
- On the end of a shoelace is a little plastic tip. When it
breaks, it’s tough to get the end of the lace through the
hole in your shoe. What is the plastic tip called?
- When you dig a hole, you shovel the dirt up into a little pile
on the ground next to the hole. What is the space between the pile
of dirt and the edge of the hole called?
- On a dock is a little post, around which you wrap the rope that
tethers your boat to the dock. It has the same name as the little
posts outside the door of some supermarkets, posts that are spaced
far enough apart to allow you to walk through but not wide enough
to allow passage of a shopping cart. Can you name the posts?
- Look closely at a horseshoe and you'll see it has little thing
that sticks out on the bottom so the horse that’s wearing it
won't slip and break a leg. Do you know the word that identifies
those things?
- If you're a pipe smoker, you know that there is half-smoked
tobacco that you must clean out of the bottom of the bowl from time
to time. Do you know its name?
- There’s a word for the decaying leaves and pine needles
and weeds and stuff that’s found all over the ground in a
forest. What is the word?
- When the dentist searches for cavities, he uses a certain
instrument. Identify it.
- There’s a little metal thing that holds a lampshade on a
lamp. You often have to fiddle with it when you change a burned-out
bulb. What’s it called?
- You make a slit when you start to saw a piece of wood. As you
keep sawing, the slit gets bigger and bigger until it disappears
and you have two pieces of wood. What is the slit called?
- There’s an indentation in the bottom of many bottles.
It’s supposed to add strength to the glass. It also makes the
bottle look like it holds more than it really does. Can you
identify the indentation?
- What do you call the thin end of a knife blade-the part that
fits into the handle?
- Believe it or not, there’s a holder for a handleless
coffee cup - you know those "sleves" that you put over the cup.
Without one, people with handleless coffee cups might burn their
hands. Can you name it?
The cache can be found at:
N 45 0[Zarf-Harp]. [Duff-Calk-Aglet][Kick+Bollard]
W093 [Explorer+Berm-Dottle-Calk][Harp+Aglet].
[Kerf-Bollard][Tang]
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.
Note: The hider (me) reserves the right to make changes to the
puzzle as required due to mistakes. The puzzle may have a mistake
somewhere, if it does it was completely unintentional. The hider
may, at his discretion, add hints after a few cachers have solved
the puzzle and found the cache.
The Difficulty and Terrain rating are for the cache hide, not the
puzzle.
