On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:23:30 -0400, Wes
wrote the following:

"Joe AutoDrill" wrote:

The Google Books Project has been pushing antedates back for terms like
this with great regularity. Still takes some follow up though, their
OCR process also introduces quite a few errors...


Leon,

What you provided was enough to get us to the point of satisfaction for this
week. Thank you.

Might follow up on those other leads in the futuer though. Curiosity...


Just remember, the symbol for dead nuts on a drawing is a Double U with an arrow though
both U's.

Sounds more like the symbol for 'pierced nuts' to me, Wes.

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