Apprentice and Hex keys
"FMurtz" wrote in message
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four by two is definitely UK for a length of wood of this
cross-section in inches. It has sometimes been used as rhyming slang for
Jew (I seem to remember).
As in Ronnie Barker's famous Rhyming Slang Vicar monologue, in which someone
was described as "a rich four-by-twoish merchant".
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