timmynoggy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A rope used on a ship to prevent other lines and riggings tangling with each other.

   “Graduates of the Naval Academy will find in this book many definitions which would have been of inestimable value to them during their "plebedom." In fact, the definition of "timmynoggy" would have saved the writer much mental and some physical exertion.”

2. isim Given to various strop and toggle gadgets on board ship, used in connection with the upper yards to save time in sail drill.
3. isim A device more or less makeshift, to enable something to be done more expeditiously than would be possible in the ordinary way.

   “A term for almost any time- or labour-saving device: naval: ca 1850-95. Ex dial. ‘’timmynoggy’’, ‘a notched square piece of wood; used to support the lower end of the “vargood” or long spar serving as a bowline, itself ex dial. ‘’timmy’’, the stick or bat used in the game of rounders. cf. GADEGT”

4. isim Candleholder of iron.