Lobby Dosser wrote:
"Bush Carpenter" wrote:


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"George E. Cawthon" wrote:


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"RicodJour" wrote:



TWS wrote:


Can anyone give me the reason a 'frog' is called a frog?

Because it looks like a frog sitting on its haunches.

http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/images/leopfrog.gif

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More likely to have come from railroad terminology. See about
halfway
down for 'frog'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_switch

Railroading possibly made the term more common,
but there were things called frogs long before
railroads.


Such as ...

Perhaps ...

Part of a violin bow


The bit at the end? (not hand end)


Part of a horse-drawn mouldboard plough

Device to attach a sword/scabbard/bayonet/axe to a belt or sling


Didn't know any of those.

Why do you suppose so many bits in so many different applications are
called frog?






We answered that!

The part on the tip of a bow is just the tip of
the bow, the frog is the par that adjusts the tension.