"Michael Hoffman" wrote in
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Huge wrote:
(S.Byers) writes:
The 11.53 today (Sunday) ex-Hayes to Paddington FGWL strain arrived -
well eventually - fully 25 minutes late - but packed to the gunnels.
It's "gunwhales", BTW.
According to the OED it is either "gunwale" or "gunnel" as the original
poster spelled it.
Of course it additionally lists archaic variant spellings such as the
one you used and gonne walle, gunwayle, gunwaile, gun-wall, gun(n)al,
and gunhill.
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Michael Hoffman
Yes okay the train was chock a block - we get the picture and we are more
concerned with the situation on the trains than the correct use of nautical
below the decks terminology.