Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 12:12:46 +0100 From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: julian@tfs.com, terry@cs.weber.edu Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD with Bustec BT-542B SCSI interface Message-ID: <199502121112.MAA00287@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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> From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) > "Clapped out" in that case might refer to the horse after being ridden in such a way. "Clapped out" meant some centuries ago: to be worn out & decrepit from "having the clap", The Clap was slang for venereal disease, especially gonorrhoea. Recently, as per Penguin Dict. '85, "Clapped out" generally refers to machinery. `Clapper' is the active part of a bell, (as in church tower bell etc), perhaps a fast rotating bell is meant by analogy as `going like clappers', & then degenerates to being `clapped out' through over use ? --- Julian Stacey <jhs@freebsd.org>
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