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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 2:01 am
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Mike Lyle wrote:
| Quote: | Harvey Van Sickle wrote:
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Ummm...I was thinking of Nova Scotia concertini, known as
accadians.
(I'd plead a typo, but I know it won't wash....)
Cajuns do play corjuns. To an irritating extent.
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Mind you, playing them to even the slightest extent is irritating.
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Jordan Abel
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| Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 2:01 am
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Mark Brader wrote:
| Quote: | Glenn Knickerbocker:
Have I forgotten a word, or made up a memory of one? Is there a name
for the joined-crosses mechanism that a pantograph (the drawing kind or
the figurative kind on a trolley) shares with fireplace tongs,
retractable wall lamp fixtures, collapsible gates, and those comic
extendable boxing gloves that show up in cartoons? ...
Don Gilmore:
It is a scissor mechanism.
An interesting name, considering that scissors do not contain it.
(The essence of the thing is the presence of a complete diamond.
Indeed, I would say that at least two diamonds are necessary, so a
pantograph doesn't really contain it either.)
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Neither do the fireplace tongs at my house. |
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Glenn Knickerbocker
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| Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:03 am
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:36:03 -0000, Mike Lyle wrote:
| Quote: | Harvey Van Sickle wrote:
(I'd plead a typo, but I know it won't wash....)
Cajuns do play corjuns. To an irritating extent.
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Yesbut will THEY wash?
"Alabama and Auburn college football is the 'opiate of the massahs.'"
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Glenn Knickerbocker
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| Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:03 am
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:36:46 GMT, Christopher Green wrote:
| Quote: | most contexts. There's a device called a "scissor jack", which
consists of two crossed levers drawn together by a screw.
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Actually, doesn't a scissor jack more often have four levers in a diamond
shape, with the screw pulling on the, um, horizontal diagonal?
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This is definitely an item I don't remember easily, as demonstrated by my
driving right off it last time I changed a tire!
"Scissor" also seems to be used with fireplace tongs, but "accordion"
with gates and lamps, as well as coat racks. Neither seems to go with
boxing gloves, though, so maybe a more general word was entirely in my
imagination after all.
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Christopher Green
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| Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:03 am
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:36:45 -0500, Glenn Knickerbocker
<NotR@bestweb.net> wrote:
| Quote: | On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:36:46 GMT, Christopher Green wrote:
most contexts. There's a device called a "scissor jack", which
consists of two crossed levers drawn together by a screw.
Actually, doesn't a scissor jack more often have four levers in a diamond
shape, with the screw pulling on the, um, horizontal diagonal?
___
o
/ \
/ \
~~o~~~~~o~~
\ /
\ /
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These are also called a scissor jack, but the kind I'm thinking of is
more like
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/ \
with the lead screw on one of the legs and a single fulcrum in the
center.
Put several of these in series, with a lead screw or handles or
something on the first, and you have your lazy-tongs.
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Freddy
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| Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:03 am
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"Christopher Green" <cj.green@att.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:36:45 -0500, Glenn Knickerbocker
NotR@bestweb.net> wrote:
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:36:46 GMT, Christopher Green wrote:
most contexts. There's a device called a "scissor jack", which
consists of two crossed levers drawn together by a screw.
Actually, doesn't a scissor jack more often have four levers in a diamond
shape, with the screw pulling on the, um, horizontal diagonal?
___
o
/ \
/ \
~~o~~~~~o~~
\ /
\ /
____o____
These are also called a scissor jack, but the kind I'm thinking of is
more like
\ /
\ /
\ /
O
/ \
/~~\~~~~
/ \
with the lead screw on one of the legs and a single fulcrum in the
center.
Put several of these in series, with a lead screw or handles or
something on the first, and you have your lazy-tongs.
V.G. Was it worth it?
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don groves
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| Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:03 am
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In article <2vv8rhF2qtq46U1@uni-berlin.de>, Skitt at skitt99
@comcast.net exposited:
| Quote: | R J Valentine wrote:
Glenn Knickerbocker wrote:
} Have I forgotten a word, or made up a memory of one? Is there a
name for } the joined-crosses mechanism that a pantograph (the
drawing kind or the } figurative kind on a trolley) shares with
fireplace tongs, retractable } wall lamp fixtures, collapsible gates,
and those comic extendable boxing } gloves that show up in cartoons?
I guess "pantograph" is sometimes used } loosely with this meaning,
but I thought I remembered a more general } word.
Back in the old country we used to call it ein Storchschnabel. Would
you settle for "crane's bill"?
Well, if a stork is not available, a crane will have to do.
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Cough.
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 2:06 pm
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Glenn Knickerbocker wrote:
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| Quote: | "Scissor" also seems to be used with fireplace tongs, but
"accordion"
with gates and lamps, as well as coat racks. Neither seems to go
with
boxing gloves, though, so maybe a more general word was entirely in
my
imagination after all.
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Glenn, maybe you missed my earlier suggestion of "lazy tongs":
Christopher mentions the same expression. I'm sure that's what we'd
use informally; though it seems from OED1 that the engineering
expression is "pantograph", by extension from the drawing instrument.
Mike. |
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