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Posted: 17 March 2009 08:49 PM   [ Ignore ]
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Discuss meander here.

noun

Ordinary Language

1) Literally: A winding or circuitous course; intricate windings and turning; a maze, a labyrinth.

2) Figuratively: An intricacy, a maze; anything resembling a labyrinth.

Art

A peculiar style of ornamental design, in which the lines interlace; it is often used in decorating vases, and is also sometimes met with in architecture.

verb transitive

To wind, turn, or flow over or round; to traverse in a winding or circuitous course; to wander over.

verb intransitive

To move, flow, or advance in a circuitous or serpentine manner; to have a serpentine or intricate course.

“Pierce my vein,
Take of the crimson stream meandering there,
And catechise it well.” - Cowper

[Latin maeander, meandrus, from Greek maiandros = the name of a river in Phrygia, remarkable for its circuitous course.]


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Afterism (n) - A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late. “John Alexander Thom”

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.  “George Eliot”

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Posted: 18 March 2009 03:09 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Answer.com says meander can mean to mosy.  When very little I asked my grandmother what a mosey was.  She replied “halfway between a saunter and a shuffle”. 
I offer this just for want of the thread dying.

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Posted: 18 March 2009 03:36 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Hi Luke,

Glad you moseyed (mosied) into this thread and shared. Now don’t meander off, there might be something around the next bend. grin

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Afterism (n) - A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late. “John Alexander Thom”

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.  “George Eliot”

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Posted: 18 March 2009 09:50 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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An oxbow incident perhaps ?

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Posted: 19 March 2009 08:09 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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Doug, I am simply aghast you could make such a suggetion at our uberGOG’s comment on the hairpin curves.

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Posted: 19 March 2009 09:45 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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Sorry Luke, I didn’t meander do it.

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Posted: 19 March 2009 11:04 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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A billabong is a river that has meandered once to orphan.

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Posted: 19 March 2009 02:30 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]
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To meander orphan other direction.  The river that separates the state where I live from the one to the east, meandered into an oxbow some decades back, leaving the oxbow lake in the middle of the
city. Unfortunately the state boundary did not change, leaving a hunk of that state smack dab in the middle of our city.  Really weird. 
Wike has some really good pictures, by the way.

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Posted: 19 March 2009 10:37 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]
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Remind us which city Luke.  As for the GOG’s, we could be talking hairpin curves or rollers - who knows ?  Maybe round, the next blonde in the river.

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Posted: 20 March 2009 09:42 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]
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Curves or rollers???
Then we could all sing; “Row, Row, Row your boat”, as we navigate the rollers.

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Posted: 27 March 2009 03:06 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]
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If you Google Earth to the Red River, North Dakota, today really afflicted with so much flooding, you will see an amazing set of curves, oxbow, and the like meandering between N. Dak and Minnesota.
Quite a view.

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Posted: 27 March 2009 06:36 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]
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Meander: an attention-deficit version of walking.

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Posted: 28 March 2009 07:06 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]
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Is that similar to a “Mosey” which is half-way between a saunter and a shuffle?? (which was our conversation above).

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Posted: 28 March 2009 08:08 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]
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According to history, a Mosey is a straightline walk between two opposing bodies of water.

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Posted: 28 March 2009 08:44 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 14 ]
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Which is far better than a straight-line walk between two opposing bodies of land divided by water.

The example, you could say that the Titanic was moseying from England to the United States when the iceberg voiced its objections.

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Posted: 28 March 2009 02:53 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 15 ]
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Ok, you two, St. Paddy’s Day is over, you can cut the malarky.

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