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In maritime parlance "dead men" are loose ends of gaskets hanging from a yard; or "Irish pennants" which means a loose end hanging about the sails or rigging. What's your definition?  wow
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Gee, Flatlander, I know that a deadman's switch is one designed to require active operation, so that leaving one unattended stops operation of the machinery. I associate deadman's switches with trains. I'm guessing that, in the construction industry, a deadman is something similarly related to safety?
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Plank projecting over end of scaffolding?
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ps. Anyone know what a "deadman" is in construction parlance? Answer will follow.
It exists in medical physics, too. When I'd first heard it, I'd guessed it was borrowed from heavy equipment operations of some sort. It's the switch you have to hold down to keep the gantry moving when setting up a linear accelerator for a radiation therapy treatment. Presumably if the gantry squashes you unexpectedly against the wall, you let go of the deadman , and it stops squashing further.
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>Boy, somebody really cobbed these cabinets in here.
we'd say "cobbled" in that instance.
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we'd say "cobbled" in that instance. undoing the 'haplog'
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Anyone know what a "deadman" is in construction parlance? Answer will follow.
A "deadman" is a temporary post or column used to hold up a ceiling or roof while the walls are built/repaired, presumably because a dead man could do the job. I like it because it's such a morbid word for such a simple thing.
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presumably because a dead man could do the job
Presumably because he's a stiff?
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The Five Graves to Cairo were the five letters of "Cairo," so much (once again) for poor sources. Still, I have it from some damn place that Jerry is Ger'y.
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In WWII, "Jerry" was US Army slang for the krauts.
Copied from the British if used by the Americans. "Kraut" (derived from "sauerkraut"?) was the usual American slang. "Jerry" was originally a semi-affectionate(!) contraction of "German" coined in Britain.
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