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Attempt - Weight Lifting (gambling) and Nicol (iou)


Attempt - Weight Lifting (gambling)


Each lifter is allowed three attempts, at requested weights, on the snatch and on the clean and jerk. The results of the best good lifts are added to reach a total. If the lifter doesn' t have at least one valid attempt in each of the two lifts, there is no total.

Nicol (iou)



Nicol noun. M19.
[William Nicol (d. 1851), Scot. physicist and geologist.]
Optics. In full Nicol prism, Nicol's prism. A prism consisting of two pieces of Iceland spar cemented together so as to transmit only the extraordinary ray of doubly refracted light.