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Re: weather cocking -lee cocking???

Posted By: Malcolm Schweizer
Date: Sunday, 18 July 2004, at 9:46 a.m.

In Response To: weather cocking -lee cocking??? (Robert N Pruden)

It's a term that has to do with how you drink your Guinness. Some folks like to side-sip right out of the bottle. This is called weather-cocking, after the old sailing folk who would have a brew during rough weather, and due to rough seas they weren't able to pour it into a glass.

Lee-cocking is a term used to describe it when you pour it into a pilsner and leave it before you cock your head back and enjoy it. Formerly "leave-cocking," the term evolved over the years into "lee-cocking," probably due to slurred speech caused by too much weather-cocking and lee-cocking. That's also how "gunwales" got to be caled "gunnels."

Malcolm

Messages In This Thread

weather cocking + blowing out to sea
barb todd -- Sunday, 6 May 2001, at 7:56 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
Mike Scarborough -- Sunday, 6 May 2001, at 9:13 a.m.

weather cocking -lee cocking???
Robert N Pruden -- Saturday, 17 July 2004, at 4:27 p.m.

Re: weather cocking -lee cocking???
Jay Doorly -- Sunday, 18 July 2004, at 1:56 a.m.

Re: weather cocking -lee cocking???
Robert N Pruden -- Sunday, 18 July 2004, at 10:08 a.m.

Re: weather cocking -lee cocking???
Jay Doorly -- Monday, 19 July 2004, at 10:25 p.m.

Re: weather cocking -lee cocking???
Malcolm Schweizer -- Sunday, 18 July 2004, at 9:46 a.m.

Aye, matey, thankee much fer 'elpin' me unnastan *NM*
Robert N Pruden -- Sunday, 18 July 2004, at 9:57 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
LeeG. -- Sunday, 6 May 2001, at 10:04 a.m.

sweep strokes - - - -
Dan -- Sunday, 6 May 2001, at 5:45 p.m.

Re: sweep strokes - - - -
Tim -- Sunday, 6 May 2001, at 6:56 p.m.

Re: sweep strokes - - - -
LeeG -- Thursday, 10 May 2001, at 11:48 p.m.

Re: sweep strokes - - - -
Shawn Baker -- Friday, 11 May 2001, at 1:26 p.m.

Re: sweep strokes - - - -
LeeG -- Friday, 11 May 2001, at 6:55 p.m.

Re: sweep strokes - - - - and rudders
risto -- Saturday, 12 May 2001, at 7:05 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
LeeG. -- Sunday, 6 May 2001, at 7:59 p.m.

Re: sweep strokes with a rudder...
Shawn Baker -- Monday, 7 May 2001, at 10:27 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
WesT -- Monday, 7 May 2001, at 12:01 p.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
LeeG. -- Tuesday, 8 May 2001, at 1:27 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
LeeG. -- Tuesday, 8 May 2001, at 9:13 a.m.

Re: That pretty much says it all *NM*
Shawn Baker -- Wednesday, 9 May 2001, at 11:28 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
WesT -- Tuesday, 8 May 2001, at 9:31 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
LeeG. -- Tuesday, 8 May 2001, at 10:12 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
Linda -- Tuesday, 8 May 2001, at 10:02 p.m.

I hesitate tackling this one...
risto -- Monday, 7 May 2001, at 10:36 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
tom -- Monday, 7 May 2001, at 11:56 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
Mike Scarborough -- Monday, 7 May 2001, at 7:19 p.m.

Weathercocking/Open Ocean Kayaking
Brianne Corbett -- Monday, 7 May 2001, at 7:55 p.m.

Re: Weathercocking/Open Ocean Kayaking
Rod Estvan -- Thursday, 10 May 2001, at 4:43 p.m.

Re: Weathercocking/Open Ocean Kayaking
Brianne Corbett -- Thursday, 10 May 2001, at 5:44 p.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
mary -- Friday, 16 July 2004, at 11:07 p.m.

where do I start?
M. Hamilton -- Tuesday, 20 July 2004, at 1:26 a.m.

Re: where do I start?
tiva -- Sunday, 25 July 2004, at 8:48 a.m.

Re: where do I start?
mary -- Wednesday, 18 August 2004, at 10:10 p.m.

Re: where do I start?
Mike Scarborough -- Thursday, 19 August 2004, at 10:01 a.m.

Re: where do I start?
davemcadoo -- Monday, 23 August 2004, at 4:11 p.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
phil -- Friday, 20 August 2004, at 5:54 a.m.

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