The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3183   Message #15554
Posted By: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca
30-Oct-97 - 06:37 PM
Thread Name: Pop Goes the Weasel
Subject: RE: Pop Goes the Weasel
I thought the "weasel" was a tailor's term, referring to the irons that they have attached to long arms that could fold up. (My local tailor has such a device) Neither it nor monkey are in my OED defined as cobbler's or tailor's terms, but I don't have the giant OED.

I thought that The Mulberry Bush was a pub.

"Treacle" is the word Brits use to describe what we North Americans call molasses or blackstrap. ( What the Brits call molasses is apparently something different -- uncrystallized syrup drained from raw sugar)