timmynoggy

noun timmynoggies · timenoguy

1. A rope used on a ship to prevent other lines and riggings tangling with each other. I cannot suggest the derivation of this word, but in the form of Timmynoggy it was well-known all my time in the Navy, 1867-1886. Perhaps its best known application was used in connection with the lower studding-sail. In setting this sail it was hoistered clear of the hammock netting, rolled up and

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2. broadly Given to various strop and toggle gadgets on board ship, used in connection with the upper yards to save time in sail drill. I cannot suggest the derivation of this word, but in the form of Timmynoggy it was well-known all my time in the Navy, 1867-1886. Perhaps its best known application was used in connection with the lower studding-sail. In setting this sail it was hoistered clear of the hammock netting, rolled up and
3. broadly 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. Candleholder of iron. I wonder if we might here be dealing with yet another variant of the word timmynoggy. This was the name for a candle-holder of iron, and lacking a sliding-piece. But it also had several other nautical meanings in Cornwell. One of these seems especially relevant, since it refers to the notched piece

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