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   Bob La Londe to pyotr filipivich   
   Re: Etymological question -- "waller" a    
   01 Sep 24 09:47:00   
   
   From: none@none.com99   
      
   On 9/1/2024 9:13 AM, pyotr filipivich wrote:   
   > John Hickey <6b4982e1e61a5fe58cc79b7da465ce9d@example.com> on Sun, 01   
   > Sep 2024 02:45:03 +0000 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking  the   
   > following:   
   >> On an excavator's youtube work channel out of Derby Indiana, called Dirt   
   Pefect, I just heard them say that vehicles repeatedly going through a low   
   area in a filed had "wallered out a ditch."   
   >> In rural West Virginia I often heard this term used to mean the   
   unintentional widening of a hole, like a bolt hole, and I may have heard it   
   usd to meana the intentional wiening of a hole.   
   >> What I have not heard discussed here (?) is its use to mean the wearing   
   away of threads on a bolt, which I also heard in West Virginia from auto   
   mechanics.   
   >   
   > 	"Waller" comes from making a "wallow" - what pigs do in mud,   
   > mostly to stay cool.   
   > 	A waller not a well defined hole, so it is what happens to roads,   
   > holes you drill that for some reason are more oval than round, or   
   > holes / spots which over time have become out of spec if they ever   
   > were one.   
      
   What about drilled holes that come out trianguloid in shape?   
      
      
      
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