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Word Origins
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Cuyler Page <[log in to unmask]>
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Light fuse ... retire quickly.
Date:
Sun, 15 Jul 2001 23:37:34 -0700
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A west coast visitor to our historic site today asked if the log building term "chinking" refers to the Chinese in some way.   He was remembering the 1800's fish filetting machine called the "Iron Chink" that replaced many Chinese workers on the fish cannery plant line, and which for which the Provincial Museum recently revised the text for its artifact to be more currently politically correct even though the name is cast right into the iron frame of the device.   Anyway, since I recalled chinking as a common term for log building at Camp Barton, I suggested that it probably was derived from caulking in some way.   Any ideas from you east coasters?

cp in bc

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