by Rod Brock July 27, 2006
An automated device once used in processing fish, particularly salmon. The term derives from the fact that in the early history of the U.S. fishing industry, individuals of Chinese extraction were often employed in fish canneries. The "iron chink" displaced many Chinese workers.
by Rod Brock July 24, 2006
by Rod Brock July 27, 2006
Inflammation of the sebaceous gland of they eyelid. Folklore held that one got a sty from urinating upon a public roadway.
My brother was always getting a sty on one or the other of his eyes, but he swore he never peed along the roadside when he was walking home from school.
by Rod Brock July 24, 2006
by Rod Brock May 15, 2006
An allusion to being corporally punished, where the victim would be sent to the woodshed to await his punisher. The woodshed was a popular location, because it was remote from the rest of the family, and there was abundant material there for fashioning a paddle or a switch.
by Rod Brock July 26, 2006
by Rod Brock July 27, 2006