- TY for the correction and additional interesting multi-pair letter words, Hydra!
- Ya, ContACT, I always wondered why we book collectors don't qualify as "bookkeepers!" In fact, I initially assumed that would be the first meaning listed for the two meanings of the word! Not so!
- RUSTY0: Your word has been added to the end of my list (but don't hold your breath! At the current rate it won't show up here until mid NEXT YEAR!
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As for the
etymology of "fid": it was a 17th century Old Irish word for "tree, or any chunk of wood." (Prolly were a LOT of things called a "fid" back then, but I can see how such a nautical use would stick, name-wise, given all the deep tradition in seamanship....)