wand

Hazel

(A good practical wood for wands ;-)  Other more exotic ones may appeal, but Hazel 'gets the job done'.)

There's a school of (possibly German) dressage that advocates replacing a long schooling whip with two hazel wands, one in each hand, to tap the horse on either side to reinforce commands.  Ye gods, if somebody tapped me with a hazel wand every time they wanted me to do something, the Doom of the Divine Powers would be just around the corner!

Can I be personal and follow Hazel with Ash? - the lead characters from my last run of books, known collectively as The Shrubs.

coal

scuttle

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Quote from: Jo Bannister on March 18, 2023, 09:05:03 PMYe gods, if somebody tapped me with a hazel wand every time they wanted me to do something, the Doom of the Divine Powers would be just around the corner!

Ah...  Krakatoa, East of Java ;-)

In fact, Gyppo, Krakatoa lies (or lay) a little west of Java.  Still, even film-makers are entitled to some poetic licence.

scurry

gundog

(Amongst the many attractions listed at any county fair there is usually a 'gundog scurry'.)

hunt

blood

blister

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Junior mechanics and in fact those in many manual trades will acquire many 'blood blisters' before they  learn to avoid getting 'pinched' between metal parts, either in the object being repaired or on the tool itself.

A classical example is long-handled tin-snips, where the handle ends can come together and pinch the inside of your wrist or forearm.

If you look in the toolbox of an 'old hand' you'll often see he has a length of hosepipe or similar between these two ends to ensure he doesn't get 'nipped'.  Also handy for hanging them on a peg on the workshop wall.

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lameness

In the good old days, when the old boys looking after the horses were unencumbered by six years of veterinary
studies, every tackroom had a medicine chest for treating illness and injury.  It wasn't a particularly big chest, because TCP and a couple of stitches was the treatment for every wound, black drench the treatment for every stomach ailment, and blister the answer to all lameness. (There was red blister and black blister, and I can't remember which was stronger, but having both in your chest was widely considered to be showing off.)  Of course, simple remedies were often enough to do the trick - blister worked mainly by making your horse's leg so sore he couldn't be worked for a while, and the time off healed the tendon or spavin or whatever it was.  Objectively, though, the good old days weren't all that good, because when I started riding horses were often past work by their mid teens.  Now we don't think of them as old until they're into their twenties or beyond.

crutches

psychological

(As in using alcohol or drugs as a 'crutch'.)

mind

Software.  If your brain is the hardware, your mind is the software which 'runs' upon/within it.

Just like computer software most of the time it 'just works', but occasionally it can 'crash' or 'throw a wobbler'.