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

[Elizabeth A Heckert]

  Jack-of-all-trades??
   Elizabeth

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 07:59:43 +0200 Volker Bach <bachv at paganet.de> writes:
>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

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