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Originally Posted by West Ender
My dad used to say, when asked what he was doing, "Making layo'ers for meddlers". I once heard that layo'ers were really lay overs, or nets, put over medlars, the fruit that's like a pear, to stop birds pecking them.
Well, it's as good an explanation as any.  |
thanks for the answer West Ender, I had allways assumed the saying had come out of the cotton mills , something to do with overlookers and tacklers , I'd never heard of Medlars (fruit) before .