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JeffH Senior Member Past Moderator Offline Don't stand behind me, I'm about to sling! Posts: 354 Memphis, TN Gender:	Re: glandes Reply #15 - Nov 7^th, 2003 at 6:16pm I will post the bag as soon as Chris gets it. I have to rely on him to store my images since I don't have a web site. jeff <><
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Re: glandes
Reply #16 - Dec 10^th, 2003 at 9:08am

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... also does anyone know what the word glandes actually means???

To answer one of your original questions:

Glandes is Latin and it the plural of glans. This word litterally means acorn although I think it could mean other nuts too.

If you look glans up in an English dictionary you will find it has a more anotomical meaning.

Glans came to mean bullet.

Although we are used to seeing lead bullets in the form of a prolate spheriod from Greek and Roman times, some bullets were much more crudely formed in a thumb mold - made by forming a hole in clay simply by pushing in a thumb. These bullets more closely resemble an acorn.

I suppose it is also possible that it is a reference to the shape of an almond, but I am not sure whether the meaning of glans could extend to that.

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bamaham93 Tiro Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 28	Re: glandes Reply #17 - Sep 27^th, 2007 at 10:50pm nemesis_3003 wrote on Sep 26^th, 2003 at 12:41am: . also does anyone know what the word glandes actually means??? leaden acorn.
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Æthelbera Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Resident Cavegirl Posts: 1135 grieving- august 13th/09 :( Gender:	Re: glandes Reply #18 - Sep 27^th, 2007 at 11:30pm Sounds about right, as a few other languages call acorns "glande" such as french or portugese.
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Re: glandes
Reply #19 - Sep 28^th, 2007 at 12:26am

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Sounds about right, as a few other languages call acorns "glande" such as french or portugese.

I'll agree with you on the French point, but my mom who was an exchange student in Brazil for a year says acorn in portugese is bolota (though it took her a while...there aren't all that many acorns in Brazil)

A quick check with an online translator tells me the Latin word for acorn is balanus.

I Liked your theory, though Grin

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Æthelbera Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Resident Cavegirl Posts: 1135 grieving- august 13th/09 :( Gender:	Re: glandes Reply #20 - Sep 28^th, 2007 at 8:29am Oh I looked it up on the etymology section in dictionary.com
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Re: glandes
Reply #21 - Sep 28^th, 2007 at 8:30pm

I seem to recall that most of the "real" sling projectiles recovered by archy-ologists (I can't spell) were spindle shaped. There must have been a reason for that. Our ancestors were not idiots. A group of humanoids who can create the ballista, trebuchet, "wild ass" catapult, and Greek fire knew something about something. Maybe a lot about everything.

A recent History Channel episode recorded the discovery of an ancient text apparently written by Archimedes (I think; he was the mathematician in Syracuse) which, when translated, showed that he was working around the edges of calculus. I don't think that, at that time, "zero" was part of the numbering system, so negative numbers were right out. Also, why did the Sumerians use a "base 60" numbering system?

There's so much to learn.

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Re: glandes
Reply #22 - Sep 28^th, 2007 at 8:35pm

OrangeDuck wrote on Sep 28^th, 2007 at 12:26am:

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Sounds about right, as a few other languages call acorns "glande" such as french or portugese.

I'll agree with you on the French point, but my mom who was an exchange student in Brazil for a year says acorn in portugese is bolota (though it took her a while...there aren't all that many acorns in Brazil)

A quick check with an online translator tells me the Latin word for acorn is balanus.

I Liked your theory, though Grin

Orange Duck

But they got awful [[ sic ]] lot of coffee in Brazil. Quoting an old Frank Sinatra song.

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M. Demetrius Tiro Offline Posts: 21 Central Texas Gender:	Re: glandes Reply #23 - Oct 7^th, 2007 at 6:20pm >>>also does anyone know what the word glandes actually means??? Yes. [i]Glans[/i] is Latin for "nut, acorn, or bullet (for a sling)" [i]Glandis[/i] is the correct plural. So it's safe to say one glans, two or more glandis. If it matters, it's a feminine noun. ::)
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Trebuchet Descens Offline Ave, Caesar! Baliares te salutimus! Posts: 240 Montgomery, AL Gender:	Re: glandes Reply #24 - Oct 8^th, 2007 at 8:31pm Yurek wrote on Nov 4^th, 2003 at 3:41pm: Yes he is, just with water. This is no Molotov coctail or nitroglycerin Jurek You're missing a great opportunity to experiment with Greek fire..... Trebuchet
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