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pumpkin

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pumpkin  \Pump"kin\,  n.  [For  older  pompion,  pompon,  OF  pompon, 
  L.  pepo,  peponis  Gr  ?,  properly,  cooked  by  the  sun,  ripe, 
  mellow;  --  so  called  because  not  eaten  till  ripe.  Cf  {Cook}, 
  n.]  (Bot.) 
  A  well-known  trailing  plant  ({Cucurbita  pepo})  and  its  fruit, 
  --  used  for  cooking  and  for  feeding  stock;  a  pompion. 
 
  {Pumpkin  seed}. 
  a  The  flattish  oval  seed  of  the  pumpkin. 
  b  (Zo["o]l.)  The  common  pondfish. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pumpkin 
  n  1:  a  coarse  vine  widely  cultivated  for  its  non-keeping  large 
  pulpy  round  orange  fruit  with  firm  orange  skin  and 
  numerous  seeds;  subspecies  of  Cucurbita  pepo  include  the 
  summer  squashes  and  a  few  autumn  squashes  [syn:  {pumpkin 
  vine},  {autumn  pumpkin},  {Cucurbita  pepo}] 
  2:  usually  large  pulpy  deep-yellow  round  fruit  of  the  squash 
  family  maturing  in  late  summer  or  early  autumn 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  pumpkin 
 
    A  humourous  term  for  the  {token}  -  the  object 
  (notional  or  real)  that  gives  its  possessor  (the  pumpking"  or 
  the  "pumpkineer")  exclusive  access  to  something  e.g.  applying 
  {patches}  to  a  master  copy  of  {source}  (for  which  the  pumpkin 
  is  called  a  "patch  pumpkin"). 
 
  Chip  Salzenberg    wrote: 
 
  David  Croy  once  told  me  once  that  at  a  previous  job,  there  was 
  one  tape  drive  and  multiple  systems  that  used  it  for  backups. 
  But  instead  of  some  high-tech  exclusion  software,  they  used  a 
  low-tech  method  to  prevent  multiple  simultaneous  backups:  a 
  stuffed  pumpkin.  No  one  was  allowed  to  make  backups  unless 
  they  had  the  "backup  pumpkin". 
 
  (1999-02-23)




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