[TheForge] Tackle terminology?

Sun Feb 22 15:10:01 2004

Niggerhead. 1859. [F. prec.+ Head sb.] Applied to various black or
dark-coloured roundish objects. (Cf. Negro-head)  A clump or tussock of
vegetation (US), the black or rough head of some plants (Austral.); Min. a
dark-couloured nodule or boulder; = Negro-head.

from The Oxford Universal Dictionary on Historical Principles, 3rd Edition,
1955.

Bought this huge old dictionary when I was in college at a flea market, had
it for years before I looked up something to discover it jumped from Manna
to Might pg 1201-1248 were missing! can't complain for $8 penciled in the
inside, seems I recall it was actually $5.

Kevin

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Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> I was a little surprised to see this.  Has anyone ever heard
> the term "nigger head" applied to a portion of a guy derrick?
> Granted, this was published in 1927, but I still found it a
> bit unusual.

Yeah, I've heard the term, though at the time I didn't know enough about the
equipment to have a clue as to what they were talking about. When I was
selling insurance to roughnecks on the oil wells in SE Ohio, I heard the
term once or twice, when the tool pusher was giving the guys orders, as in,
"Joe, get up to the nigger head and..yada yada" Don't know how common it is,
or was- this was early 80s, and the outfit was from W. Virginia.

Saint Phlip,
CoDoLDS

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....

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