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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?                            --       Bob La Londe       CNC Molds N Stuff                     --       This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software.       www.avg.com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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