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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:46:23 GMT -5
Spelled with one t, a sackbut is an early Renaissance brass instrument similar to a trombone. Spelled with two ts, a sack-butt is a wine barrel.
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:46:34 GMT -5
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:46:45 GMT -5
The adjective sexagesimal means "relating to the number 60," while anything that proceeds sexagesimally does so in sets of 60 at a time. A sexagesm, ultimately, is one-sixtieth of something.
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:46:59 GMT -5
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:47:12 GMT -5
Both sexangle and the equally indelicate sexagon are simply 17th-century names for what is otherwise known as a hexagon, a plane geometric shape with six sides. The prefix sexa– is derived from the Latin word for "six" rather than its Greek equivalent, heks.
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:47:24 GMT -5
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:47:36 GMT -5
Dating back to the Middle English period, foil is an old-fashioned name for a leaf or petal, which is retained in the names of plants like the bird’s-foot trefoil, a type of clover, and the creeping cinquefoil, a low-growing weed of the rose family. A sexfoil is ultimately a six-leaved plant or flower, or a similarly shaped architectural design or ornament incorporating six leaves or lobes.
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:47:47 GMT -5
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:47:57 GMT -5
The shittah is a type of acacia tree native to Arabia and north-east Africa that is mentioned in the Old Testament Book of Isaiah as one of the trees that God "will plant in the wilderness" of Israel, alongside the cedar, pine, and myrtle. Its name was adopted into English from Hebrew in the early Middle Ages, but it can probably be traced all the way back to an Ancient Egyptian word for a thorn-tree.
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:48:17 GMT -5
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:48:27 GMT -5
Billcock, brook-ouzel, oar-cock, velvet runner, grey-skit, and skiddy-cock are all old English dialect names for the water rail, a small and notoriously elusive wading bird found in the wetlands of Europe, Asia, and north Africa. The name skiddy-cock is thought to be derived from skit, a 17th-century word meaning "to act shyly," or "to move rapidly and quickly"—but it could just as probably be derived from an even older 15th century word, skitter, meaning "to produce watery excrement."
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:48:42 GMT -5
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:48:54 GMT -5
A tease-hole is simply the opening in a glassmaker’s furnace through which the fuel is added.
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:50:16 GMT -5
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:50:28 GMT -5
Sheep farmers in some rural parts of Britain once had their own traditional counting systems, many of which are particularly ancient and predate even the Norman and Anglo-Saxon invasions of England. Most of these counting systems vanished during the Industrial Revolution, but several remain in use locally and have become fossilized in local rhymes, sayings and folk songs. Tether was an old Lake District name for the number three, while dick was the number ten; tetheradick, ultimately, was a count of 13.
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