01-12-2020, 11:50 PM
(30-11-2020, 08:29 PM)Bob Olive Wrote: Sounds fishy to me - to broggle is to fish for eels using a brog.(1781 OED). A brog was originally a bradawl, or similar instrument used for pricking or boring - is that what I am doing here?Another of my grandfather's tools - a bradawl, which could be used as a podger for small holes - in Meccano this was incorrectly named a 'drift'.