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I've heard of throwing a spanner in the works, but never thought about the origins of sabotage before. You would have to be desperate to throw your clog away - what would you put on your feet and wouldn't you immediately be identified as the culprit with one foot bare and the other shod?In the days when most workers wore clogs, I'm pretty sure old or worn-out ones would have been available for sabotage.
I suspect this lady insisted she was a housewife! But surely the transcript should say the same thing?Yes. I think it should. But if the lady in question was at home, but with staff who carried out any 'duties', perhaps Housewife was the most accurate description ?
Wooden shoes are very common still in The Netherlands,Belgium and parts of Rural France .Hence the word sabotage - throwing a clog into the machinery ....
No leather tops, the whole thing of wood. Klompen in The Netherlands and Belgium, Sabots in France.
Yes it is a regional term and its deffo not WheelwrightIt may be a (very) regional term, but it is not mentioned in my 1932 Webster's, which usually records ancient or obsolescent occupations.
What a minefield this is.It is a minefield largely because the system accepts whatever it is told by those registering the event. No verification is done, people are assumed honest unless we can prove otherwise (much) later.
"oth" could be a shortened version of "of the". There is a suburb of Bury, Lancs called Besses 'o'th' Barn (and a famous brass band of the same name).Good thinking, but in this context it seems unlikely following the word 'of' ?
