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Doc

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Curious as to what answers we get.
 

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EastTexFrank

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This is really quite interesting.

I grew up in Scotland calling it the "heel" and that is what everybody I know called it. It's interesting that many Americans call it the same thing. You see, we are not two nations divided by a coomon language after all. :biggrin:
 

Kane

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Yes, we all grew up calling it the heel. But today, the liberal cry babies would declare HEEL to be an inflammatory, insulting racist moniker that must be banned from use in our multicultural society.

We wouldn't want to make anyone feel "uncomfortable", now would we?
 

tiredretired

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Yes, we all grew up calling it the heel. But today, the liberal cry babies would declare HEEL to be an inflammatory, insulting racist moniker that must be banned from use in our multicultural society.

We wouldn't want to make anyone feel "uncomfortable", now would we?

According to Webster, the description of a heel is "an inconsiderate or untrustworthy person". A scoundrel, rogue, rascal, reprobate, miscreant, beast, rat, louse, swine, snake, scumbag, scuzzball and last but not least stinker.

All very apt descriptions of a liberal, but not the much sought after end piece of a nice loaf of fresh out of the oven homemade bread. Which, by the way, is much more valuable then a liberal. :yum::big grin::yum::biggrin:

Doc, aren't you glad you are the OP of this thread? LOL
 

Doc

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Heel is what we call it also. I've never heard it called anything else.
 

Catavenger

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Cat, I did and Webster defines gab ion is as follows: a basket or cage filled with earth or rocks and used especially in building a support or abutment

Am I mistaken?

:yum: sorry I couldn't resist I ran across that word recently so now I am using it everywhere as a goof. Yes it is a basket of rocks. That's why I put the grinning green face. I apologize. Yeah I know I have a warped sense of humor.

Everything I've seen the end of bread is called the "heel." I suppose I'm also a "heel" for my "Gabion" goof? :unsure:
 

tiredretired

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:yum: sorry I couldn't resist I ran across that word recently so now I am using it everywhere as a goof. Yes it is a basket of rocks. That's why I put the grinning green face. I apologize. Yeah I know I have a warped sense of humor.

Everything I've seen the end of bread is called the "heel." I suppose I'm also a "heel" for my "Gabion" goof? :unsure:

My wife tried to tell me it was a joke. She always says I never listen. I be thinking she is right. :biggrin:

You got me. Enjoy the moment, my friend. Now the rest of us have learned a new word. :yum:
 

300 H and H

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Cat, I did and Webster defines gab ion is as follows: a basket or cage filled with earth or rocks and used especially in building a support or abutment

Am I mistaken?

On the farm we have gabion baskets set flush with the dirt. They are used at the top or a point of consolidation of water through a property line (think small ravine) of a vegitated water way, to spead the water that enters them across the width of the basket. Below them we make a flat bottom in the waterway. This keeps the water from consolidating into a narrow, and damaging stream. They are filled with large limestone rocks, and one would think that they would fill with silt over time. Remarkably they don't. The big rains that brings them large amounts of run off water washes them out once again.:smile:

They work lot better than I thought they would when we installed them. JFYI..

Regards, Kirk
 
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