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Colin Sinead Rainbow 42. If you look carefully at the wording in the clue all will be revealed

Parlez-vous francais?
http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=For%C3%A7at&redirect=no

Merci Bullfrog,

As I posted earlier, I knew the answer was FORCAT as I had heard the word previously but I couldn't find it in my dictionary or on line. Thanks for pointing me to the confirmation. Diolch yn fawr.

Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary © 2005 Oxford University Press:

forçat /fɔʀsa/
masculine noun

convict;
galley slave.

Mon plaisir, Colin.

Nos da.

Maybe I'm just a grumpy old man, but is anyone else frustrated by the layout of this quiz. I know it's only twice a year, but I always find I have to spend quite a while changing font sizes and margins so that I can actually print the thing off.

The only meaning for FORCAT in the OED is ‘A rest for a musket’.
I suppose you have to find people of the right calibre?

Bees.

You're fired.

JimC

Bees, When I suggested FORCAT it was a 'shot in the dark.!!!!!!
Promise not to have such a cavalier approach in future!

Colin Bees Forcat is defined as "a convict condemned to hard labour" Rainbow quiz reference book -- The Chambers Diictionary 10th Edition.

I thought it might be something to do with Squeeze. It's OK, it's cool forcats.

Goodbye, I'll see myself out.