[TheForge] Tackle terminology?

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

When I worked as a kid on fishing  boats it was the common term for the 
rotating drum of the winch that we used to pull the anchor...take a wrap 
or two and keep the tension on to pull...slack off and it slips....Pete f

Andy Vida wrote:

>Phlip wrote:
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>>Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>	In this time of hyper-sensitivity I wonder if they still
>	use the term.
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