rugged

[Jonathan Lighter]

Found in a few seconds:

1995 W. L. Heflin, M. K. B. Edwards, & T. F. Heffernan _Herman Melville's
Whaling Years_ (Nashville: Vanderbilt U.P.) 114: March was a stormy month,
squally, rugged, or rainy more than half the time.

Quoting from the 1841 log of the _Acushet_, the authors cite a day "rugged
with rain" and "rugged weather + squally" (77).

This evidence needs no advocate.

JL


On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> At 10:00 AM -0500 2/6/11, ronbutters at AOL.COM wrote:
> >Thanks to Paul for doing this research.
> >
> >A separate entry for "rugged weather" still seems like overkill to
> >me. Anyone could figure out the meaning of "rugged weather" from the
> >other definition in the same way that one could figure out "rugged
> >toilet training" or "rugged oral exam". But I bow to the
> >professional opinion of AMERICAN HERITAGE--if this isn't something
> >they put in to see if other dictionary makers plagiarized their
> >triviality.
> >
> >If they took this out, they would have room for "snood"!
> >
>
> I demand a separate subentry for external hard drives.  My "LaCie
> Rugged Hard Disk" is officially (according to the box) an
> "All-Terrain Hard Disk".  I assume that unrugged external drives are
> only capable of proceeding on ordinary paved roads or desks.
>
> LH
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