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cuntline or contline or cantline

PRONUNCIATION:

(KUHNT-lyn)

MEANING:

noun:
1. The spiraling groove between two strands of a rope.
2. The space between bilges (the widest part) of two casks stowed side by side.

ETYMOLOGY:

From cant (slope), from French from Latin cantus (corner), from canthus (rim). Earliest documented use: 1848.

USAGE:

“The cuntline in the rope of our legs.”
Nadine Botha; Ants Moving the House Millimetres; Deep South; 2005.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

The crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness, and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock. -Margaret Halsey, novelist (13 Feb 1910-1997)

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