tosspot Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 on the local shoot today and was asked to take a new guy and run a length of "sewelling" out on the way the chap asked me "what is sewelling" so i explained, and he remarked that it sounded a strange almost un-english word and did i know of its' origin or true meaning if it had one to which i could not but i said that i could ask some very knowledable chaps (and chapessess) that i know in an effort to find him an answer so over to you guys (and guysesses) cheers Tp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiercel Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 Done a google on sewelling and came up with, Herbert Sewelling BROWN. So it might be named after the inventer? Tiercel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 So what the hell is sewelling? LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 glad you asked that WHAT THE HELL IS IT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 glad you asked that WHAT THE HELL IS IT My pleasure mate. LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiercel Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 I believe it it the bunting you put up to make Pheasants rise? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 We have got a gaffa on the shoot and he brings along the company bunting. Its like being at home in South London as a kid LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tosspot Posted December 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 think i may have got to the bottom of it according to a mate "sewelling" is an old roman word for baler twine and ripped up game cock feed bags Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the pelt man Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 Didn't JR have a sewelling if not i've got one most Mornings :o PELTMAN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 JR's swelling had massive shoulder pads though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the pelt man Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 JR's swelling had massive shoulder pads though Thats why they made wide screen TV's PELTMAN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invector Posted December 22, 2006 Report Share Posted December 22, 2006 The name probably comes from the old name for scarecrow, SHEWELL. I'm not joking, by the way...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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