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Yanno, I just did a theme week, but I just noticed I have a bunch of nautical jargon on my To Be Posted list, and that'd make a pretty good theme, I think. So -- anchors aweigh!
orlop (AWR-lop) - n., the lowest deck of a ship with four or more decks.
This would be on one of the big sailing ships, like a warship. The orlop was below the water-line, and often used for storing cables. Like much jargon, the exact origin is unclear -- in five dictionaries, I see six suggestions -- but most agree it dates back to at least Middle English overlop, cover for a ship's hold with a sense similar to overlap or to run over, taken from some west Germanic source like Middle Dutch or Middle Low German, and the trail gets fuzzy.
---L.
orlop (AWR-lop) - n., the lowest deck of a ship with four or more decks.
This would be on one of the big sailing ships, like a warship. The orlop was below the water-line, and often used for storing cables. Like much jargon, the exact origin is unclear -- in five dictionaries, I see six suggestions -- but most agree it dates back to at least Middle English overlop, cover for a ship's hold with a sense similar to overlap or to run over, taken from some west Germanic source like Middle Dutch or Middle Low German, and the trail gets fuzzy.
---L.
