So obscure there's no image of one. Try this then. (Stolen from USFS. Sue me.)
(1) A shaved-down section of trail, about 10 feet (3 m) in diameter, with an exaggerated outslope to enhance drainage in a mild sort of way. Like the fancier rolling grade dip, a nick is used to shed water from a trail, most often at wet spots on relatively flat trails. Boring then. A boring feature. No wonder there's no picture of one.
(2) A grade dip, but hardly noticeable, and with a more obscure name. As if you cared.
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Me? Still the gold standard for dips.
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(1) A lighter. A thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemicals which ignite with friction.
(2) A thing for striking fire. The term was first used in 1831 for the modern type of friction match. One of its shortcomings is that you can use a match to start a fire but not to stop one. We're still working on that.
(3) A device used to start fires. Contains certain magical chemicals that form a blob on one end of a stick. Damn clever. Not as much fun as a lighter, and doesn't come in as many fascinating colors, but is smaller and lighter in weight, and has no moving parts. Not nearly as interesting as lightning, however, which is your goto device if you need to start a really big fire, but of course lightning is much harder to fit into a backpack.
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Me? Recently set my socks on fire. While sleeping. Another hidden talent. Formerly hidden talent.
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(2) An ounce of marijuana, or at least it used to be. Dunno. Don't mess with things like that any more, just trying to live quietly and stay out of trouble these days.
(3) Fleshy flap found at the top and bottom of the eye. Good for trapping flies and dirt.
(4) A cover, like one for a cooking pot, which is something every backpacker needs. (Except for the breatharians, a notably feeble and very tiny subgroup of the backpacker community, most known for falling way behind and then dying.)
OK then, we're looking for #4 here, folks. Righto. The only lid that interests us at all is the cover for a cooking pot. For an ultralighter, this thing could be just a folded square of aluminum foil, which works too.
A lid aids stove efficiency by keeping heat inside the pot with the food, where it belongs. (You can't burn your tongue while wolfing down food that ain't hot, after all.)
In a pinch though, you could wear a pot lid on your head for fun at hiker parties. (Want a clue why you're not invited any more?)
Example: Put a lid on it, Fool, or it might burst into flames or be carried off by bugs.
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Me? Recently seen eating all kinds of things.
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(1) A birdwatching term for a group of birds that wheel and circle around in the air. A group like this may reportedly contain several species. But birds will at times do very odd things, of course, possibly just to confuse humans. Don't take it personally if at all possible. You are only an ape, after all, and life is full of many other more interesting things to worry about.
(2) A pot, which is a deep pan for cooking in, a vessel for boiling a liquid or for preparing food, usually metal, with a lid.
(3) A teakettle, tea kettle, or pot. A small kitchen container used for boiling water or cooking food, as we've just recently heard.
(4) A surface depression formed by a large, detached block of melting glacial ice that got itself trapped, buried in sand and gravel, and then melted. As the ice melted it left behind a crater-like depression, possibly more than 100 feet deep at times. This is a "kettle".
(5) Glacier droppings. As glaciers retreated (i.e., melted back) at the end of the last ice age, hill-sized blocks of ice broke off and remained embedded in the landscape. After the ice melted, ice-block-shaped depressions were left behind. These filled with water and grew up to become small lakes or ponds. We call them "kettles". But they are too big to cook in, so smaller aluminum versions were invented for backpackers. Hence the origin of the pot. (Because backpackers can't bring themselves to use a somewhat kinky and effete word like "kettle".)
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Me? Dealing with my own droppings, thank you very much.
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