Words I’ve learnt from Spellbinding

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Caracara

A type of falcon native to the Americas.

Crested Caracara

Acta

Recorded proceedings / official acts

Acta

Caracal

A wild large cat with ears like horns

Caracal

By fun coincidence, there is a Nostr client named caracal, and a new version was announced today:

gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/caracal/43022

(What's a Nostr client?)

https://nostr.how/en/what-is-nostr

Catfall

(nautical) A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead. (What’s a cathead? A heavy piece of timber projecting from a ship on which an anchor is raised or lowered, and secured).

Catfall

Curr

To make a murmuring sound (as of doves). /Not/ the same as cur, famously deployed in The Secret of Monkey Island:

This is the END for you, you gutter-crawling cur!

Curr

Facta

Plural of factum, a legal term with a few different meanings centred on factual things. What's the difference between a Latin word being absorbed into English, and English-speaking lawyers occasionally dropping into Latin?

Facta

Tactual

A synonym of tactile.

Tactual

Catmint (Gobble)

Recta (Gobble)

Bubby

Buss

Musette

Mutest

Sute

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