[Sca-cooks] A suggestion taken...
Truman Barnes
chirhart_1 at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 5 21:53:22 PDT 2005
Some how "OTTER POO" Has a ring to it ! CHiiiOlwen
Huette von Ahrens <ahrenshav at yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Phlip
wrote:
>
> Well, of all the names offered, we've decided that "Swage" is it ;-) A good
> name for a blacksmith's dog ;-)
>
> Checked in the dictionary, and apparently the word is derived from Middle
> English, and then from Middle French,"souage".
>
> Anybody willing to look in the OED for me, see what else it shows?
Done, as you wished.
Huette
Swage, n. 1
[f. SWAGE v.1 Cf. ASSUAGE n.]
1. Alleviation, relief.
a1300 Cursor M. 24350 (Edin.) That suim was of mi soruing swage [Cott. suage].
2. concr. The excrement of the otter. local. (Cf. SWAGING vbl. n.1 3.)
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