[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #430 - 20 msgs

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    Hmmmm . . . perhaps the term 'Stycque Jacques' might be apropos . . .

    Sieggy (who's already installed a Barca-Lounger and an e-mail port under
the rock)

----- Original Message -----

> I can't quite shake loose the feeling that 'jack'
> might have been the Middle English equivalent of
> 'thingamajig', given just how many things I've
> heard it describe (tankards made of leather,
> nonmetallic brigantine armor, a wooden block to
> support stuff, a sailmakers tool...)
>
> Giano
>
>
> margali schrieb:
> >
> > A jack is a tankard made of leather [typically ;-)]
> > margali
>