timmynoggy

Noun

timmynoggy (plural timmynoggies)

1. A rope used on a ship to prevent other lines and riggings tangling with each other.
   • I cannot suggest the derivation of this word, but in the form of Timmynoggy it was well-known all my time in the Navy, 1867-1886. Perhaps its best known application was used in connection with the lower studding-sail. In setting this sail it was hoistered clear of the hammock netting, rolled up and...
   • The name Timmynoggy was also applied to the various strop and toggle "gadgets" used in connection with upper yards and top-gallant masts to gain time in sail drill. C.C.G.1911, Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perris, The Mariner's Mirror Volume 1, Society for Nautical Research, page 188

   Synonyms:

   timenoguy

2. (broadly) Given to various strop and toggle gadgets on board ship, used in connection with the upper yards to save time in sail drill.
   • I cannot suggest the derivation of this word, but in the form of Timmynoggy it was well-known all my time in the Navy, 1867-1886. Perhaps its best known application was used in connection with the lower studding-sail. In setting this sail it was hoistered clear of the hammock netting, rolled up and...
   • The name Timmynoggy was also applied to the various strop and toggle "gadgets" used in connection with upper yards and top-gallant masts to gain time in sail drill. C.C.G.1911, Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perris, The Mariner's Mirror Volume 1, Society for Nautical Research, page 188
3. (broadly) A device more or less makeshift, to enable something to be done more expeditiously than would be possible in the ordinary way.
   • A term for almost any time- or labour-saving device: naval: ca 1850-95. Ex dial. ‘’timmynoggy’’, ‘a notched square piece of wood; used to support the lower end of the “vargood” or long spar serving as a bowline, itself ex dial. ‘’timmy’’, the stick or bat used in the game of rounders. cf. GADEGT1973, Eric Partridge, Jacqueline Simpson, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang, page 5497
4. Candleholder of iron.
   • I wonder if we might here be dealing with yet another variant of the word timmynoggy. This was the name for a candle-holder of iron, and lacking a sliding-piece. But it also had several other nautical meanings in Cornwell. One of these seems especially relevant, since it refers to the notched piece...1975, Nautical Research Guild, Nautical Research Journal Volume 21, page 94

   Synonyms:

   Sticking Tommy