Re: [bolger] fun old sailing terms
> Nipper - The hands whose job it was to 'nip' a sailing ship's anchor cableFrom Shakespeare's The Tempest:
"Nip well there; Quarter-Master, get's more nippers."
http://books.google.com/books?id=KM_C_rEMnPcC&pg=PA337&dq=%22Nip+well+there%3B+Quarter-Master,+get%27s+more+nippers.%22
Nipper - The hands whose job it was to 'nip' a sailing ship's anchor cable
to the endless belt activated by the capstan when the anchor was being
weighed were always the smallest and youngest men on board. Hence the word
'nipper' has come to mean a youngster.
www.britishempire.co.uk/glossary/n.htm
Just for fun...-Bill
to the endless belt activated by the capstan when the anchor was being
weighed were always the smallest and youngest men on board. Hence the word
'nipper' has come to mean a youngster.
www.britishempire.co.uk/glossary/n.htm
Just for fun...-Bill