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From: "Lizzie Love" <>
Subject: Re: [TRIVVIES] occupations
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:35:59 -0000
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OR ...

Public Mangler: A large, violently contentious person of limited
intelligence, frequently barred from your local pub.

Lizzie


> I would imagine the public mangler is someone who worked in a laundry,
pressing wet clothes through a mangle.
>
> A SAGGAR is a fireclay container, usually oval or round, used to protect
pottery from marking by flames and smoke during firing in a bottle oven.
>
> The SAGGARMAKER, is a skilled man, producing the finished saggar, using
his thumb to make a near join between the side and the base.
>
> The BOTTOM KNOCKER (a young boy) made the base of the saggar from a lump
of fireclay which he knocked into a metal ring using a wooden mallet or mawl
(pronounced mow).
>
> Pat.xxx :o))
> A Maid of Kent, UK.
> Your county needs YOU !!! http://FreeCEN.rootsweb.com
> Looking for ancestors in Kent ? Try: http://www.kent-opc.org.uk/
>
>
> Dear Trivvies:
>
> Here are 2 that I wrote down - I don't know when or
> where. But is there anyone who knows what is a
>
> public mangler
>
>
> sagger maker's bottom knocker
>
> ????
>
> hugs Sharla
>
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