carrot vs guerdon

carrot

noun
  • Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something. 

  • A redhead; a ginger-haired person 

  • A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, especially the subspecies sativus in the family Apiaceae. 

  • A police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London. 

  • A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange). 

  • Someone from a rural background. 

verb
  • To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture. 

guerdon

noun
  • A reward, prize or recompense for a service; an accolade. 

verb
  • To give such a reward to. 

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