I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show geoff m
wrote back on 8 Feb 2005 02:09:02 -0600
in rec.crafts.metalworking :
On 5 Feb 2005 00:28:56 -0500, (DoN. Nichols)
wrote:
I'm wondering whether it is a single part for a crossbow, or
simply sort for "product" to mean the whole thing. Since English
appears to not his first language, I would have to say that he is doing
quite well at communicating, but there is still that term which puzzles

The "prod" is the bow part of a crossbow. And the arrows are quarrels
(well you woudl quarrel if someone shot one at you too!)

People with crossbows don't kill people, quarrels do!

--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."