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timenoguy Naut.|ˈtɪmɪnɒgɪ|
Also timm(e)y-nog(gy).
[app. f. F. timon timon2 + guy n.1]
(See quots. 1794-1867) In extended sense, a gadget.
1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 178 Timenoguy, a Rope fastened at one end to the fore-shrouds, and nailed at the other end to the anchor-stock, on the bow, to prevent the fore⁓sheet from entangling. 1841Dana Seaman's Man., Timenoguy, a rope carried taut between different parts of the vessel, to prevent the sheet or tack of a course from getting foul, in working ship. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Timenoguy, formerly [as in Dana; but adds] specially from the fore⁓rigging to the anchor-stock, to prevent the fouling of the fore-sheet. Ibid., Timonogy, this term properly belongs to steering, and is derived from timon, the tiller, and the twiddling-lines, which worked in olden times on a guage in front of the poop.., by which the position of the helm was easily read even from the forecastle. 1880W. Bottrell Traditions W. Cornwall 3rd Ser. 198/2 Timmy-noggy, a notched square piece of wood, used to support the lower end of the Vargord. 1886[see gadget]. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 282 Timmynoggy,..a name given to various strop and toggle gadgets on board ship... A device more or less makeshift, to enable something to be done more expeditiously than would be possible in the ordinary way. 1963R. M. Nance Gloss. Cornish Sea-Words 160 Timmy⁓noggy,..may be a nautical substitute word like ‘thingum-a-bob’. 1976Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea 870/2 Timenoguy,..more recently it was a rope made fast in the mizen rigging with a thimble in the end through which passed the hauling part of the mainbrace. |