Our wool manufacturing history spawned a whole vocabulary that has now died out again, kept alive only in books and on retrieved signage from the mills.... Doffing, driving pegs, pot eye, wharles, laps.
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Interesting! It is good that it was written down so it can be remembered.
ReplyDeleteIt makes me think of a Monty Python sketch. "Trooble at t' mill. One of t' flay rods goone oot askew on treddle."
ReplyDeleteYou could probably combine a random selection of these words and have the name of a little village in the north of England.
ReplyDeletenot to mention tenter hooks, which has since been corrupted so that people now say they are 'on tender hooks' !!
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