Glissade

GLISSADE

-noun

1. a gliding step in ballet, in which one foot slides forwards, sideways, or backwards

2. a controlled slide down a snow slope

-verb

3. (intr.) to perform a glissade

As the year glissades

Into an icy immaterial end

Beware time frost bites

Fork

FORK

-noun

1. a small usually metal implement consisting of two, three, or four long thin prongs on the end of a handle, used for lifting food to the mouth or turning it in cooking, etc.

2. an agricultural tool consisting of a handle and three or four metal prongs, used for lifting, digging, etc.

3. a pronged part of any machine, device, etc.

4. of a road, river, etc.

a. a division into two or more branches

b. the point where the division begins

c. such a branch

5. (chiefly US) the main tributary of a river

6. chess . a position in which two pieces are forked

-verb

7. (trans.) to pick up, dig, etc., with a fork

8. (trans.) chess . to place (two enemy pieces) under attack with one of one's own pieces, especially a knight

9. (trans.) to make into the shape of a fork

10. (intr.) to be divided into two or more branches

11. to take one or other branch at a fork in a road, river, etc.

We spoon and we fork

Because life is short

And food is getting cold

Humbug

HUMBUG

-noun

1. a person or thing that tricks or deceives

2. nonsense; rubbish

3. (Brit) a hard boiled sweet, usually flavoured with peppermint and often having a striped pattern

-verb

4. to cheat or deceive (someone)

She objects to wrapping

All this fuss sheer humbug

To the furry curmudgeon

Plication

PLICATION

-noun

1. the act of folding or the condition of being folded or plicate

2. a folded part or structure, especially a fold in a series of rock strata

3. surgery  the act or process of suturing together the walls of a hollow organ or part to reduce its size

A strange oculus

Speaks of plication

Bricks spirited away

Magic wall

Dodge

DODGE

-verb

1. to avoid or attempt to avoid (a blow, discovery, etc.), as by moving suddenly

2. to evade (questions, etc.) by cleverness or trickery

3. (intr.) bell-ringing . to make a bell change places with its neighbour when sounding in successive changes

4. (trans.) photography . to lighten or darken (selected areas on a print) by manipulating the light from an enlarger

-noun

5. a plan or expedient contrived to deceive

6. a sudden evasive or hiding movement

7. a clever contrivance

8. bell-ringing . the act of dodging

Nowadays

Dodging is electronic

A turn of a pen

On a computer screen