Timeline for "There is a woman with a snapper."
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| Jul 24, 2018 at 2:50 | comment | added | Phil Sweet | It may be helpful to note that the shakers practiced sexual equality. It would have been a remarkable sight to see a woman driving a team (I presume pulling a wagon) elsewhere in the eastern US at this time. As pacifists, they wouldn't have used horse whips. While snappers could be added to horse whips, I think this refers to something akin to a riding crop that was only a noise maker. Oh, and the barn is this one | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 21:47 | answer | added | user221615 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 20:49 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1021497489894109190 | ||
| Jul 23, 2018 at 18:25 | answer | added | Sven Yargs | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 17:51 | comment | added | Jim | I guess they didn’t have these in the 1850s... I’m voting for @SvenYargs’s whip suggestion. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 17:37 | history | reopened |
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| Jul 23, 2018 at 17:27 | history | edited | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added the contextual information from the comment by njuffa.
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| Jul 23, 2018 at 15:47 | comment | added | njuffa | Steven Olsen-Smith, "Melville in His Own Time", from a letter by E. A. Duyckinck to his wife;August 8, 1850 : "We passed on among the 7000 Shaker acres by the immaculate yellow houses, glazed like a pail, the red barns and the bricky natives, by well cultivated fields to the Hancock village where we saw the huge barn & where Mrs Morewood driving a pair of horses with three ladies had come on to meet us -- There's a woman with a snapper. She is to be the owner of this house next year & I must tell you more about her." | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 15:45 | comment | added | Lambie | It is not necessarily slang at all. Fish, anyone? Sounds like a painting "Woman with Snapper". | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 15:41 | history | closed |
Dan Bron lbf tchrist♦ |
Needs details or clarity | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 15:24 | comment | added | Dan Bron | The phrase “There is a woman with a snapper" does not describe a woman as a snapper. But that she is with one. She could be, for example, on a dock or pier, holding a fishing pole in one hand and a snapper (a type of fish) in another. Please tell us where you found this sentence and edit your question to include the larger context in which it was found. It would also be helpful if you told us if you'd seen this word more than once, or more generally why you believe it to be common in 19th C speech or writing, or idiomatic, etc. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 15:14 | comment | added | Roger Sinasohn | Unless you feel you're not getting enough spam e-mail, never post your e-mail address in public on the internet. I've removed it from the post. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 15:13 | history | edited | Roger Sinasohn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Removed e-mail address and location
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| Jul 23, 2018 at 15:02 | history | asked | laurie Robertson-Lorant | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
