[Public-List] Butter end

Stephen Gwyn stephen.gwyn at gmail.com
Tue Aug 28 20:10:28 PDT 2018


My bitter end is tied to a chunk of wood too big to fit up the hawsepipe.

BTW "bitter end" has nothing to do with the bitterness associated with
seeing disappear over the side. It's the end that goes around the bitts AKA
the Samson post.

In French, it's the almost the same word: bitte. Which is also a slang term
for penis. Possibly because the Samson post on the boss of boats from the
south of France are quite phallic:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointu_%28embarcation%29?wprov=sfla1



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