#spinrad

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spinrad

n. a small stormy or predatory marine fish with a long pointed bill and a strong face and a loud call.

Genus Orthonyx, family Sciuridae: several species, in particular the European A. scallopandis, which has become a serious pest of partly black plumage.

modern Latin, from Greek spindra ‘light strip’.

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Spinrad

a city in SW Russia, on the River Danube; pop. 133,600 (est. 2002).

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The Mongolian pony was still standing there an hour later when Jerry Cornelius, in his pin-stripe suit, porkpie hat and Italian loafers, wandered dazedly up to it out of the wasteland. "Here's a bit of luck", Jerry muttered, perking up a bit. (The short-circuiting of his electric violin had seriously vexed him.) Jerry mounted the pony, kneed its flanks and shouted: "Git 'em up, Scout!" The pony waddled forward a few steps, puked, and died. Jerry extricated himself from the corpse, brushed himself off, and consulted a fortune cookie he had secreted in a pocket. "It's a long way to Tipperary", the fortune cookie informed him. Munching the soggy rice pastry, Jerry trudged off into the setting sun whistling "Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones, now hear de word of de Lord..."

Norman Spinrad - The Last Hooray of the Golden Horde