Words beginning graduate students don't know

[Laurence Horn]

On Oct 11, 2013, at 12:29 AM, W Brewer wrote:

> Postdoctorally, I resided at the Hoffleit house for a year or so in Pacific
> Palisades CA, so I think palisades must be cliffs. But I don't know the
> last word in the list. What's a <geoff>?
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That's easy; a variant of _goaf_, the quantity of grain stacked in one bay of a barn.  That one didn't come up as often in Washington Heights.

LH

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