PoD Posted June 15, 2012 Posted June 15, 2012 Does anyone know what a Grummet is? It is mentioned this document from 1710 relating to crewing a ship. "Make up your Complemt. of men and Grummets One hundred & Ten in Number, as fast as you can." Is it some sort of post on a ship as it is mentioned along with Pages a lot in the book "Butterflies Will Burn: Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico" (the only other reference to it i can find)? http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WrM0__qIN2YC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false It mentiones that it is the lowliest type of sailor and seems to indicate that it is mainly young boys in the post. Anyone else come across the term before? ...and then I discovered the wine...
Fox Posted June 15, 2012 Posted June 15, 2012 Grommet. sometimes referring to a boy, sometimes to an inexperienced seaman. Foxe"With this Fore-Staff he fansies he does Wonders, when, God knows, it amounts to no more but only to solve that simple Question, Where are we? Which every chi'd in London can tell you." - Ned Ward The Wooden World Dissected, 1707ETFox.co.uk
Jas. Hook Posted June 15, 2012 Posted June 15, 2012 (edited) POD - Ditto on Foxe's info at this site - thepirtestreasure.com/index_files/Glossary.doc It lists a Spanish word of grumete which on Babylon Spanish to English translation lists : grumete - nm. cabin boy, shipboy, servant boy on a ship Jas. Hook Edited June 15, 2012 by Jas. Hook "Born on an island, live on an island... the sea has always been in my blood." Jas. Hook "You can't direct the wind . . . but . . . you can adjust the sails." "Don't eat the chickens with writing on their beaks." Governor Sawney
landlubbersanonymous Posted June 15, 2012 Posted June 15, 2012 We'll pass this along to the missus. It'll make for a better period impression than "hey you punk bastids!"
Jas. Hook Posted June 15, 2012 Posted June 15, 2012 We'll pass this along to the missus. It'll make for a better period impression than "hey you punk bastids!" Hey, "Avast thar ye punk grummets, belay that!" Hummmm... it has possibility. Jas. Hook "Born on an island, live on an island... the sea has always been in my blood." Jas. Hook "You can't direct the wind . . . but . . . you can adjust the sails." "Don't eat the chickens with writing on their beaks." Governor Sawney
landlubbersanonymous Posted June 15, 2012 Posted June 15, 2012 We'll pass this along to the missus. It'll make for a better period impression than "hey you punk bastids!" Hey, "Avast thar ye punk grummets, belay that!" Hummmm... it has possibility. Jas. Hook You're a natural JH. And now we know who to leave them with during their summer break.
Jas. Hook Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 We'll pass this along to the missus. It'll make for a better period impression than "hey you punk bastids!" Hey, "Avast thar ye punk grummets, belay that!" Hummmm... it has possibility. Jas. Hook You're a natural JH. And now we know who to leave them with during their summer break. LLA - Aye, shackles hand an foot for them grummets, an a bowl of gruel fer a spell. Thems thar younkers be shipshape n' golden fer next summer. Lined up by the pipe call like Cap'n Von Trapp's crew. Jas. Hook "Born on an island, live on an island... the sea has always been in my blood." Jas. Hook "You can't direct the wind . . . but . . . you can adjust the sails." "Don't eat the chickens with writing on their beaks." Governor Sawney
landlubbersanonymous Posted June 20, 2012 Posted June 20, 2012 Ha, I can already see the wife's eyes rolling.
oderlesseye Posted June 23, 2012 Posted June 23, 2012 Funny how long this saying has been around..in the modern surfing circuit community , New surfers who are young teens are often referred to as Grommets as well. http://www.myspace.com/oderlesseyehttp://www.facebook....esseye?ref=nameHangin at Execution dock awaits. May yer Life be a long and joyous adventure in gettin there!As he was about to face the gallows there, the pirate is said to have tossed a sheaf of papers into the crowd, taunting his audience with these final words: "My treasure to he who can understand."
peglegstrick Posted June 24, 2012 Posted June 24, 2012 (edited) For sail corners............one type of Grommet Edited June 24, 2012 by peglegstrick
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