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From: Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>
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Subject: Re: Etymological question -- "waller" a hole
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2024 09:47:00 -0700
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On 9/1/2024 9:13 AM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
> John Hickey <6b4982e1e61a5fe58cc79b7da465ce9d@example.com> on Sun, 01
> Sep 2024 02:45:03 +0000 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking  the
> following:
>> On an excavator's youtube work channel out of Derby Indiana, called Dirt Pefect, I just heard them say that vehicles repeatedly going through a low area in a filed had "wallered out a ditch."
>> In rural West Virginia I often heard this term used to mean the unintentional widening of a hole, like a bolt hole, and I may have heard it usd to meana the intentional wiening of a hole.
>> What I have not heard discussed here (?) is its use to mean the wearing away of threads on a bolt, which I also heard in West Virginia from auto mechanics.
> 
> 	"Waller" comes from making a "wallow" - what pigs do in mud,
> mostly to stay cool.
> 	A waller not a well defined hole, so it is what happens to roads,
> holes you drill that for some reason are more oval than round, or
> holes / spots which over time have become out of spec if they ever
> were one.

What about drilled holes that come out trianguloid in shape?



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