Seldom-used words - M to A

[AllardChardon]

Handley, I am going to be a bit of a health nut here, so I hope you don't mind. Cooked vegetables will never be as good for you as raw veggies. And there is nothing better than a salad for raw veggies. One salad a day and you will satisfy most, if not all your requirements. I'll give you the recipe for the ones I make. I prefer romaine lettuce, but any leafy green will do. I slice red cabbage very thinly and layer that over the prepared lettuce. I grate a carrot on top of that and toss that all together. Then I add whatever I have on hand, like cherry tomatoes, sliced cucumber and avocado usually. Garbanzo, kidney beans, or olives can be added for a more filling variety of salad. All the ingredients I use are organic, but not everyone has the same availability to those vegetables. Whenever I have to use non-organic vegetables, I always wash them thoroughly with a good produce wash to remove pesticides and the like. Just watch out for sugar in the premade salad dressings. The best dressing is the most simple. Flax oil (for the Omega 3) and apple cider vinegar sprinkled on top. Making a daily salad is a little time consuming, but for retirees, like us, that shouldn't be a problem. Good luck, it really is the way to go!

Thank you, Og and Handley, for the additional info on lascars.

larum - noun (short for alarum) (15c) archaic: ALARM

 

[oggbashan]

While writing about lascars I had a word in the back of my mind. It kept popping up but I couldn't find it in my dictionary. I knew it was a wave or flow but of what and where?

I thought it was lashar. It wasn't.

It was lahar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahar

These are small lahars in Japan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kznwnpNTB6k

This is a lahar and pyroclastic flow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvjwt9nnwXY

 

[Handley_Page]

While writing about lascars I had a word in the back of my mind. It kept popping up but I couldn't find it in my dictionary. I knew it was a wave or flow but of what and where?

I thought it was lashar. It wasn't.

It was lahar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahar

These are small lahars in Japan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kznwnpNTB6k

This is a lahar and pyroclastic flow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvjwt9nnwXY

I read somewhere that Mt St Helens had put more crap into the atmosphere that all of man's coal-driven efforts.

 

[AllardChardon]

Handley, I wouldn't be surprised if that were true about Mt. St. Helens.

Og, I live near Mt. Shasta, a 14,000 ft. dormant volcano, one of the many in the Circle of Fire. I also live near the river that starts at the base of the volcano. The mountain is 12 miles to the north. Lahars would be a real concern, if the volcano erupts. Our only hope, in that case, would be that the lava would flow down in a northerly direction, instead of a southerly one. Hopefully, it won't erupt at all. The Dalai Lama's emissaries blessed Mt. Shasta during the Harmonic Convergence in 1987 and said it would not erupt, again. Mt. Lassen, a little farther south was the last to erupt near here and that was in May, 1915.

larrup(1) - noun (origin unknown) (ca. 1820) dial: BLOW

larrup(2) - vt (ca.1823) 1. dial: to flog soundly: WHIP 2. dial: to defeat decisively: TROUNCE ~ vi, dial: to move indolently or clumsily

 

[Handley_Page]

Handley, I wouldn't be surprised if that were true about Mt. St. Helens.

I don't want to think about Krakatoa, Etna or Stromboli.

 

[CarlusMagnus]

I don't want to think about Krakatoa, Etna or Stromboli.

Too busy thinking about Yellowstone?

 

[AllardChardon]

Great point, Carlus. I have been there and it is obvious that the whole place is one huge caldera. Not an if, but a when, in my thinking. But I should talk, living next to Mt. Shasta and all. Speaking of Yellowstone, did you hear about the man, who tried to feel how hot the hot springs was, slipped into it and was boiled to death? I read about it yesterday. You have to be really careful, if you go off the paths there. Hot springs pop up all over the place. Good thing they smell so bad, it's a nice warning for all us critters.

larrikin - noun (origin unknown) (1868) chiefly Australian: HOODLUM, ROWDY

 

[Handley_Page]

Handley, I am going to be a bit of a health nut here, so I hope you don't mind. Cooked vegetables will never be as good for you as raw veggies. And there is nothing better than a salad for raw veggies.
One salad a day and you will satisfy most, if not all your requirements.

Good luck, it really is the way to go!

larum - noun (short for alarum) (15c) archaic: ALARM

I have enough bother eating fruit, so you have no chance whatever of my tucking in to raw vegetables (Tomatoes excepted).
The best I can do is to boil them up, add some flavoured stock (OXO ?) and try that.

My first attempt was/is a disaster: I did not put enough water in the pan, put the whole thing on a very low light and let it go. I've managed to burn the saucepan. badly. The sort of badly requiring 'oven cleaner' in fair doses.

Too busy thinking about Yellowstone?

If that goes off, the whole USA is in deep trouble, or so I am told.
Let us all hope that it stays quiet. . .

 

[AllardChardon]

Handley, it was just a suggestion for better health overall. Good luck with your pan.

larrigan - noun (origin unknown) (1886) an oil-tanned moccasin with a leg often reaching the knee

 

[Handley_Page]

Handley, it was just a suggestion for better health overall. Good luck with your pan.

larrigan - noun (origin unknown) (1886) an oil-tanned moccasin with a leg often reaching the knee

You mean - like a boot ?

OK, I'll bite. How should one clean up a stainless steel saucepan (as I write, it's 'soaking' on the stove; cold).

 

[CarlusMagnus]

Great point, Carlus. I have been there and it is obvious that the whole place is one huge caldera. Not an if, but a when, in my thinking. But I should talk, living next to Mt. Shasta and all. Speaking of Yellowstone, did you hear about the man, who tried to feel how hot the hot springs was, slipped into it and was boiled to death? I read about it yesterday. You have to be really careful, if you go off the paths there.

In fact, going off of the paths in the dangerous areas is a violation of park regulations, and I'm pretty sure that you can be fined for doing so. Provided you survive, of course…

 

[beachbum1958]

You mean - like a boot ?

OK, I'll bite. How should one clean up a stainless steel saucepan (as I write, it's 'soaking' on the stove; cold).

According to the wife-person, the best way to clean burnt-on food from a stainless steel saucepan is to make up a paste of bicarbonate of soda and water, just enough water to make the paste spreadable, not runny, apply it to all the areas where the food is burnt-on, and leave it for at least a couple of hours, then use a soft pan scourer, not steel wool or a metal pot scrubber, to scrub the pan clean; for any stubborn areas, do it again. Never use metal scouring pads or steel wool, they will permanently damage the finish of the pan, and remember that soda bicarb is a mild abrasive too, so don't scrub like a maniac, do it gently.

 

[AllardChardon]

beachbum, that is the proper answer to getting burnt food off a stainless steel pan.

Carlus, yes, I believe you are correct in that. But the park is so big with the rangers all spread out that a hapless fool could go where he is not supposed to go rather easily.

Handley, just think of a moccasin that has a large upper flap, which wraps around the leg and is tied in place. In areas with sagebrush, snakes, and the like, it would protect the lower leg very effectively.

Here is a word that came into being as a mispronunciation;

lariat - noun (American Spanish, la reata, the lasso) (1832) a long light rope (as of hemp or leather) used with a running noose to catch livestock or with or without the noose to tether grazing animals: LASSO

 

[Handley_Page]

According to the wife-person, the best way to clean burnt-on food from a stainless steel saucepan is to make up a paste of bicarbonate of soda and water, just enough water to make the paste spreadable, not runny, apply it to all the areas where the food is burnt-on, and leave it for at least a couple of hours, then use a soft pan scourer, not steel wool or a metal pot scrubber, to scrub the pan clean; for any stubborn areas, do it again. Never use metal scouring pads or steel wool, they will permanently damage the finish of the pan, and remember that soda bicarb is a mild abrasive too, so don't scrub like a maniac, do it gently.

Ah, thank you [both].
I'll get some bicarb in the morning.

 

[AllardChardon]

Good morning, everyone.

Here's a funny sounding word;

lardoon or lardon - noun (14c) a strip (as of salt pork) with which meat is larded

 

[oggbashan]

Good morning, everyone.

Here's a funny sounding word;

lardoon or lardon - noun (14c) a strip (as of salt pork) with which meat is larded

At this time of year our local supermarkets sell packs of lardons for Christmas food. They can also be used as toppings for pizza or as meat in pasta dishes.

 

[Handley_Page]

what about 'lardy-bread' or 'lardy-loaf' ?
Used to get it when I was a kid in Somerset.

 

[AllardChardon]

Og and Handley, I have never heard or seen any packs of lardons in my life, but I can buy salt pork if I need it.

It is odd when I find a word I neither know or understand after reading the definition. Here's one of those;

lapstrake - adj (1771) CLINKER-BUILT

 

[Weird Harold]

It is odd when I find a word I neither know or understand after reading the definition. Here's one of those;

lapstrake - adj (1771) CLINKER-BUILT

Clinker-built is a method of ship-building that is based on over-lapping planks to form the hull.

per wikipedia:

"A strake or stringer is part of the shell of the hull of a boat or ship which, in conjunction with the other strakes, keeps the vessel watertight and afloat."

 

[Handley_Page]

In fact, going off of the paths in the dangerous areas is a violation of park regulations, and I'm pretty sure that you can be fined for doing so. Provided you survive, of course…

One has to admire the bold ones who worked out where the 'safe' paths were.

 

[oggbashan]

Og and Handley, I have never heard or seen any packs of lardons in my life, but I can buy salt pork if I need it.

It is odd when I find a word I neither know or understand after reading the definition. Here's one of those;

lapstrake - adj (1771) CLINKER-BUILT

This is clinker-built or lapstrake:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7031/6695619663_fb05aa3b5b_z.jpg

 

[Handley_Page]

Is that what happened to Gibbs' boat ?

 

[Hard_Rom]

Lapp (1859) - a member of a nomadic people living chiefly in N Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula of Russia.

The indigenous people of Lapland prefer to be called Sami, although Lapp is still in widespread use.

Lapland - 1570s, from Lapp, the Swedish name for this Finnic people (their name for themselves was Sabme), which probably originally was an insulting coinage
(cf. Middle High German lappe "simpleton").

 

[AllardChardon]

Harold and Og, thank you for explaining my last post to us all with words and pictures.

Hard_Rom, and thank you for adding a word and the lovely poem as well. It is so true.

Because I live near the volcano called Mt. Shasta, we have areas near Lava Beds National Monument in Tule Lake, CA, where a person can find these on the ground near Glass Mountain, as well as lots of obsidian in all sizes;

lapillus - noun plural (1747) a small stony or glassy fragment of lava ejected in a volcanic eruption

 

[CarlusMagnus]

One has to admire the bold ones who worked out where the 'safe' paths were.

The safe paths are largely boardwalks built for the purpose.

Now, how they knew where the workmen who built them could safely tread…