Dwellar Dictionary

[monster]

Fellar Dwellars,

please share with me (and the world) the first (and then any subsequent) definition of the word below in large caps that pops into your head. I know you have amazing google, linking and c&p skills, but I'd like to know what comes to your wonderful mind. It would be especially fantastic if you could reply before reading the definitions of others. TIA
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GROWLER

[Sundae]

aka Tuppence, lady-garden, front bottom

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by monster

GROWLER

Have we recently watched a certain episode of "Top Gear"?

[monster]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Have we recently watched a certain episode of "Top Gear"?

Nope. Your definition, please?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Growler = half gallon of beer.

[Gravdigr]

Well, I went where Bruce went, and, I expect Big V, and maybe Foot, to go...The large container for drink and spirits.

But...

On a recently watched episode of Top Gear, (Series 17 Episode 2, in The News segment, it's hilarious) the boys were discussing a beautiful car with the unfortunate name of The Growler. And then they proceeded to discuss, hilariously, the definition provided by Sundae, complete with several puns.

The car:





How did you come by it, meaning the reason for this discussion?

[Gravdigr]

There may be a sandwich type thing called a growler. Maybe.

I believe the lower-pitched attention getting device on a police car or fire truck, the part that ain't horn, nor siren, is called a growler.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

There may be a sandwich type thing called a growler. Maybe.

I believe the lower-pitched attention getting device on a police car or fire truck, the part that ain't horn, nor siren, is called a growler.

Isn't growler the name for the communication device onboard a submarine or other naval vessel? (not looking it up, that is).

[glatt]

I only know of the Marine's ridiculous Jeep that I posted about here a few years ago.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by BigV

Isn't growler the name for the communication device onboard a submarine or other naval vessel? (not looking it up, that is).

It's *also* a "Sound-powered telephone", aka, "growler".

The microphone transducer converts sound pressure from a user's voice into a minute electrical current, which is then converted back to sound by a transducer at the other end. The most significant distinction between ordinary telephones and sound-powered telephones is in the operation of the microphone. Since the microphones used in most telephones are designed to modulate a supplied electrical current they cannot be used in sound-powered transducers. Rather, most sound-powered telephones use a dynamic microphone. A common approach to transducer design is the balanced armature design because of its efficiency. The number of simultaneous listeners is limited because there is no amplification of the signal.

A sound-powered telephone circuit can be as simple as two handsets connected together with a pair of wires, which is defined as the "talk" portion of the circuit. Talk circuits can be realized over a pair of wires that are 50 km (30 miles) long. More complex circuits include magnetos, selector switches and bells to allow one user to select and call another, which is defined as the "calling" portion of the circuit. The voice communication ("talk") circuit is completely separate from the "call" circuit, allowing communication to take place without external power.

Sound-powered telephones are widely used on naval vessels. A typical example on a U.S. Navy ship is the "JL" circuit which is used by the lookouts to report visual contacts to the pilot house and the Combat Information Center (CIC). In this case there would be five stations on the circuit (stern lookout, port lookout, starboard lookout, pilot house and CIC).

Now *that's* a big boat.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by BigV

It's *also* a "Sound-powered telephone", aka, "growler".



Now *that's* a big boat.

taken today on the ferry

[DanaC]

i know there was a comedy skit in the 90s ( might have been the naughties) where a female celeb (not the actual celeb - an impression of) kept offering to show her growler.

[Undertoad]

I believe that the similar term for lady parts is "snapper".

[monster]

Lorraine chase was it not, Dana?

Grav, we sell them. Normally I am kept away from the customers in a safe back office where I can enlighten my fellow store support staff about British Euphemisms to our hearts content without fear of offending most. However.... today I was stuck in the register area for a while are was party to the chatty middle-age male cashier discussing his female middle-aged customer's growler, and how she used to go for a Grizzly peek.

It was all I could do to keep my giggles stifled and my middle-aged bladder from emptying itself right there. My 24yo officemate/partner in grime I believe remains unconvinced that anyone but me would think of anything other than a beer jug, so I told her I'd poll the world for the first definition that came to people's minds.

[monster]

(Grizzly Peak is a local brewery)