[Ads-l] ear-hanging

[George Thompson]

>From today's NYTimes.

Not in the OED

Scallop farming is also extremely labor intensive. Each bivalve must be
individually pinned to a line before being suspended in the water, a
process called *ear-hanging* that results in particularly large,
well-shaped animals with a potential wholesale price of as much as $3 each
when sold live.

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-- 
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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