And the spider fitter. End of non-troll hijack.
Should I split the Finial, aglet and grommet conversation out to MPSIMS?
Done.
Yes….
My wife was concerned that I wouldn’t be able to drill a neat hole in our new countertop, to install a water dispenser. I said- don’t worry about it, the dispensers always come with an escutcheon to hide the hole. She said “a what?”
Finials are also found on the top of handrail/guardrail posts (newels) on stairs and decks ocassionaly. Newels can be starting newels, volute newels, or landing newels (and probably some more specific). Between the newels are the balusters, in a traditional picket type rail.
[hijack of a hijack]
Y’all ever notice buttons.
Shaft
Split
4-hole
3-hole
2-hole
Frog
There’s a one-hole. Never understood those.
Snaps
Then there those rivets.
Damn those things are hard to reset.
“Frog” is also the name for the depression in the top of a housebrick.
j
Funny that they do not have names for the 2 little sliding things that connect the haro to the saddle.
“Zarf! Zarf!”
A frog also holds flowers up in a vase.
Seems like ‘frog’ is a handy word. Ain’t part of a horse foot too?
Indeed it is, trimmed at every shoeing, vital in pumping the blood back up through the legs.
The bow of a violin has a frog.
A plane (wood working kind) has a frog.
I remember very clearly the first time I ran into the word “aglet”. I was at a bookstore that had a book on display about weird words for things you didn’t even know had a name.
First entry was aglet.
There’s also “a frog in your throat”
A “frog kick”
A “frog step”
And that loop on overalls that holds tools is also called “frog”. Surprise surprise.
This is turning into a versatile word that can’t be matched.
I think it’s my favorite.
Not just tools. The many meanings of Frog sent me off to my favorite dictionary, 1950 two volume Oxford English coming in at just over five kilos (eccuse me, thirteen pounds (excuse me, nearly a stone)).
An attachment to the waistbelt for carrying a sword or bayonet or hatchet (1719)
There are yet more definitions. But I’ll leave them to someone else.
j
Huh. I didn’t know that; I’ve always called it a “hammer loop” (though the tool that goes in it may or may not be a hammer.) – Google recognizes “hammer loop.”
It wouldn’t be surprising if the thing’s got more than one name, though.
I’ve also seen wooden chairs with newels, on the tops of the vertical dowels on the left and right sides of the back. Though of course there are many designs of chair, not all of which even have such dowels.
Also, frog closures
In knitting/crochet slang, frogging is undoing the work that you’ve done (rip it, rip it, rip it)