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Gwyn
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16 years ago

#21

Crib dates from the mid 17th C. and refers to provisions. It is standard English and correctly refers to a container for animal food. Its use was first noted in Australia in late 19th C. when it refered to a snack or light meal.
Snap is interesting. It is at least 16th C. and means to share food. However, it later came to mean the process of sharing criminal booty, particularly from pick-pocketing and similar street crime.
Bait is from old or middle English (beyten) and means to bite.
Scran dates from the 18th C. Originally it was the payment for food at an inn but evolved to refer to bits of food, left-overs and "broken victuals". Scran is an old Royal Navy term for rations. A scran bag is military jargon for a haversack.

carnkie
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16 years ago

#22

Where did anker originate Gwyn. Was it from the Greek for drinking vessel?

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

Wormster
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16 years ago

#23

Although Underground workings are limited (ie: None) down on my island, the locals would have referd to their lunch as a "Nammet"

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Gwyn
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16 years ago

#24

I'm not sure of anker. My suspicions are that it is Dutch. I can't regress it to Greek but that doesn't mean it isn't.
Anker is a very old word for the measure/container used for spirits and wine in N.Europe. What is interesting is that as a measure it was considerably variable. The Rotterdam anker was 8.5 Imp. gallons.

Buckhill
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16 years ago

#25

Bait's the usual term in Cumberland - most of the mining terms in the three northern counties are the same (unless you're in Whitehaven) - but an old term once used, coming from that used by farm labourers, was "baggins" (from what it came in).