Home
Noole (Nool)
Arrow, shaft. In 1916, there was a satirical pamphlet called Nooled (arrows), 4000 copies of which were published for the grand price of 15 kopecks. It survived one edition. Interestingly, the caption to the cover picture says Tööliste miting, or workers’ meeting, a word clearly nicked from English, but only vaguely adopted, subsequent usages emphasizing the first syllable with a double ‘i’, miiting (see Kaasani). One of a mini target-practice group. See Oda.
Unna (Und)
Trimmer, ligger or bank runner, essentially a device allowing the business end of a fishing line to remain dangling in the water for extended periods (e.g. all night for pike, or while you go and cook sausages for ice-fishing). Could be a disk-shaped block of wood that floats, or one too large to pass through the hole in the ice, a spring-action system planted into the snow... Part of a fishing-tackle group, see also Vabe.
