In NYC the dutch influence remains, in a sad way. aside from place names, and an orange in the city flag, (city flag colors are a sort of turquoise blue, white and orange) the memory of New Amsterdam in NY is reduced to occasionally finding a pair of wooden clog shoes as tourist junk.
wooden clog shoes--more properly called sabots-- and saboteurs are people who clog up the machines of industry, and bind up the works by throwing in there wooden shoes.
saboteurs started out like 'luddite's' or 'jethro tull's'--as peasants fighting industrialization with what ever tools they had at hand.
We still use the expression "clogging up the works".
I found this in the AHD, which accounts for the unusual spelling of calibre:
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sa·bot ( P ) Pronunciation Key (s-b, sb)
n.
2)A lightweight carrier in which a projectile of a smaller caliber is centered so as to permit firing the projectile within a larger-caliber weapon. The carrier fills the bore of the weapon from which the projectile is fired; it is normally discarded a short distance from the muzzle.
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Now, where did that come from I wonder.
ED.: Is that OK now?
Geez, dixby, can you stick some CRs in there?
Carriage Returns! you've sent the page widesy!
Oh! It was OK on my screen. Thanks for telling me, I'll avoid using it.
It looked OK on my PC here at work; it was just on the Mac it went widesy.
I see. the Wonderful World of Simplicity and Perfection!
In looking the word up in my dictionary, the etymology mentioned "savate" which I have
not heard for a long time.
savate
n.
5Fr, orig., old shoe: see SABOT6 a form of boxing in which stiff-legged kicks as well as punches
may be used
WWI doughboys got some "kicks" out of French gendarmes, quite literally.
They came home with a little ditty: "The French they are a funny race, The fight with their feet,
and fxxx with their face." Much later many Americans adopted view "40 Million Frenchmen
can't be wrong."