Mouse or Lash?


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Posted by Jonathan Labaree on June 05, 2004 at 14:39:09 from 24.198.196.209 user JLabaree.

I must be feeling jolly this morning, or perhaps just contrary. I’d like to propose something that may sound both pedantic (I don’t get to be that very often) and sacrilegious at the same time.

I’d like to put forward the hypothesis that in fact “mousing” sisterhooks is the wrong term to use. My understanding of the term “to mouse” is to use small line or twine to secure the opening of an open hook.

I wonder if “lash” sisterhooks would be more accurate since you are not securing an opening, just making sure the two pieces stay together. Indeed, when two sisterhooks are in place, there is no opening. That’s the whole point.

From Richard H. Dana’s “Dictionary of Sea Terms” (1851):

MOUSE:
To put turns of rope yarn or spunyarn round the end of a hook and its standing part, when it is hooked to anything, so as to prevent its slipping out.




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