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by: Tammera Thomason - Sat, 17 Jul 2021 20:05 UTC

On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at 1:34:12 PM UTC-5, Tim Wescott wrote:
> The sons of the family mechanic talked about "wallering a hole", in the
> sense of "to wear and enlarge in an uncontrolled manner" ("the bolt was
> loose and wallered out the hole, now it don't fit"), or (with contempt
> for shade-tree mechanics) "to intentionally enlarge a hole in an
> uncontrolled manner" ("that <deleted> just wallered out those holes
> instead of using a drill bit of the proper size, now nuthin' fits right").
>
> Has anyone else seen this? I'm curious if it was a family invention or
> if it's a word of real usage.
>
> --
>
> Tim Wescott
> Wescott Design Services
> http://www.wescottdesign.com
I'm a court reporter. I am working on a transcript where an 85-yr-old witness from Georgia
is talking about drilling a hole in an electrical panel box.
He says: You put a drill bit in your drill motor and *chuck it down and drill a wall.
Sometimes you used a center punch to make sure you don't *wallow off the hole."

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by: Ned Simmons - Sat, 17 Jul 2021 21:29 UTC

On Sat, 17 Jul 2021 13:05:18 -0700 (PDT), Tammera Thomason
<dodgegirl46@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at 1:34:12 PM UTC-5, Tim Wescott wrote:
>> The sons of the family mechanic talked about "wallering a hole", in the
>> sense of "to wear and enlarge in an uncontrolled manner" ("the bolt was
>> loose and wallered out the hole, now it don't fit"), or (with contempt
>> for shade-tree mechanics) "to intentionally enlarge a hole in an
>> uncontrolled manner" ("that <deleted> just wallered out those holes
>> instead of using a drill bit of the proper size, now nuthin' fits right").
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this? I'm curious if it was a family invention or
>> if it's a word of real usage.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Tim Wescott
>> Wescott Design Services
>> http://www.wescottdesign.com
>I'm a court reporter. I am working on a transcript where an 85-yr-old witness from Georgia
>is talking about drilling a hole in an electrical panel box.
>He says: You put a drill bit in your drill motor and *chuck it down and drill a wall.
>Sometimes you used a center punch to make sure you don't *wallow off the hole."

A center punch makes a small indentation that minimizes the tendency
of a drill to skate away from the desired location when starting a
hole. You could reasonably interpret the statement "wallow off the
hole" to mean "wander from the intended location of the hole."

--
Ned Simmons

Subject	Author
Re: Etymological question -- "waller" a hole	Tammera Thomason
Re: Etymological question -- "waller" a hole	Ned Simmons