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From: "George Spooner" <>
Subject: Re: Crooked Billet
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 17:03:28 +0800
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I think you have hit the nail on the head there Stan. I've been
scratching my head (another crooked billet - finger tips now full of
splinters) trying to remember in what connection I had heard the term
before. As you suggest, it was as a slang term for a wooden gallows
tree. Can't remember where but it might have been in Dickens, Abel
Magwitch (Great Expectations) or Bill Sykes (Oliver Twist) expressing an
aversion to ending up on it perhaps?
Geo.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Whitehead" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: Crooked Billet


> Doesn't it have some connection with a Gibbet?
>
> ;-O)
> Stan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: 07 April 2001 22:38
> Subject: Crooked Billet
>
>
> | Anyone know what a Crooked Billet is/was?
> |
> | Cheers
> |
> | Ian Pubby Hunter
> |
> | http://www.essexpubs.co.uk
> |
> | http://www.tiptree.freeserve.co.uk
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