WNW: When Dictionaries Get It Wrong

My good friend Meggen sent me a link to an article, knowing it was right up my nerdy alley.
You can go read it, but the gist is this: a physics professor from Australia noted that every English dictionary he could find (including . . . GASP!!! . . . the OED) had the wrong definition of the word siphon.
We all know the general idea of siphoning: a liquid moves from one place to another, such as siphoning gas from a car.
Here's the problem: English dictionaries (which are not edited by...