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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 4 of 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 mashie, niblick #129506 06/30/04 05:21 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK shanks old hand shanks old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK They're odd to me too, and to just about anybody, I suspect. Along with 'spoon', and a few others, I genuinely believe they only survive in Wodehouse and relics of the names that golfers gave their clubs. Today, of course, they're all numbered! cheer the sunshine warrior Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: mashie, niblick #129507 06/30/04 05:24 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont yeah, mostly gone to woods and irons now, sadly.. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: mashie, niblick #129508 06/30/04 05:33 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui >I genuinely believe they only survive in Wodehouse and relics of the names that golfers gave their clubs. Today, of course, they're all numbered! In my Wodehouse phase, I read a foreword to one of his books in which he decried the change to numbered woods and irons, and defended the more colourful names that he continued to use up to the end. noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: mashie, niblick #129509 07/01/04 04:18 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA "I believe one still drives with a driver nowadays, though at any moment we may have to start calling it the Number One wood. But where is the mashie now, where the cleek, the spoon and the baffy?" ~P.G. Wodehouse Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: mashie, niblick #129510 07/01/04 01:32 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 Oh my gosh, I want the name of the book please. Hubby and his golfing buddy (they're like the Bobsy twins joined at the hip) always roll their eyes when I use a different name for anything having to do with golf. Apprently, you don't get caught in a sandpit but a sandtrap, and the big ole grass on the sides is rough, not grunge. Also, yodeling while climbing up a hill using your five-iron as a cane is strictly prohibited. I'd love to get those names. Then I'd be using REAL names and they couldn't roll their eyes. I mean really, how boring is it to say, "I'll use my driver" when you could say "Gimme my mashie, I'll whack that outta here." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: mashie, niblick #129511 07/03/04 08:33 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky yodeling while climbing up a hill using your five-iron as a cane is strictly prohibited. Dang, bel, don't they ever let you have any fun? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: odd little words for everyday things #129512 07/04/04 06:45 PM Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 15 Ontario, Canada D davego stranger davego stranger D Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 15 Ontario, Canada shoelace tip -- ferrule Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: odd little words for everyday things #129513 07/04/04 07:31 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy OP Carpal Tunnel OP of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park dave, you'd use ferule? aglet is the more common answer--tsuwm provided it early on.. (but since it wasn't really a question, but rather an invitation to submit words..) i think of a ferule as the small piece of metal all along the top edge of a ruler--the thing that lets you run a pencil along the smooth sharp edge to get a straight line.. the OUD(oxford universal) says a ferule can mean beat with a stick, or the stick you are beating with!, (ie, a rod, a cane or other instrument of punishment, esp. a flat ruler)--(but doesn't single out the metal edge of ruler, so...) all from a word for a giant fennel! aglet is a diminutive from aiguille--which is a term for a pointy peak (mountain) particularlly one of the alps.. and aglet is a metal tag or point of lace, --hence any small tag, pendant or spangle, worn as an ornament on clothing.. (eventually, the decorated tips of lace stays on woman dresses..) i suppose newer dictionaries might have more.. (the OUD is from 1955.)-- and goodness knows, if i had a penny for every time i was wrong, i'd be rich! my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: odd little words for everyday things #129514 07/04/04 07:42 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 A ferrule is also the small metal cap on either end of a fuse. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: odd little words for everyday things #129515 07/04/04 10:02 PM Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 133 J Jomama member Jomama member J Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 133 A ferule is also a ring, usually metal, that slips over the end of a tube and "bunches up" inside a connector or other fitting to ensure a firm and lasting application. 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