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Lug Nuts - Motor Sports (gambling) and sphagnum (iou)


Lug Nuts - Motor Sports (gambling)


Large nuts applied with a high-pressure air wrench to wheels during a pit stop to secure the tires in place. All NASCAR Busch Series, Grand National Division cars use five lug nuts on each wheel, and penalties are assessed if a team fails to put all five on during a pit stop.

sphagnum (iou)



sphagnum noun. , -nums. M18.
[mod. Latin (see below), from Greek sphagnos a kind of moss.]
Any of various mosses constituting the genus Sphagnum, which freq. dominate acid bogs and are spongy and absorbent from the presence of numerous hollow porous cells in the leaves and stem cortex; plants of this kind massed together, freq. used as a medium for growing orchids etc. Also sphagnum moss.
Comb.: sphagnum bog, sphagnum swamp: in which the plant life consists chiefly of mosses of the genus Sphagnum.