A bommy is a small metal plate attached to the side of old wooden ships. It would be attached outside the ship a few feet above the water line. A metal knocker was fixed to the bommy with a small float. If the ship started to take on water or loaded to much cargo, the ship would sit lower in the water and the knocker would hit the bommy, alerting the crew of potential problems.
31 Comments
peter@feddit.uk · 16 pts · 3y
The opposite of a tally whacker
iamhazel@beehaw.org · 2 pts · 3y
Best one lmao
saba@lemmy.sdf.org · 13 pts · 3y
A typo by Stephen King
trachemys@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
It’s when one boob is much bigger than the other.
chrizbie@lemmy.nz · 12 pts · 3y
In New Zealand this is what my son calls a bommy knocker
luthis@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 3y
This is a term I have heard many times (in NZ) but I can't actually connect it with a physical thing..
chrizbie@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 3y
The BIG marbles lol
Frenchy@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 3y
Yup - same in Australia
fubo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
I call 'em dangerous to bare feet!
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 3y
Sounds like a British sex term
chrizbie@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 3y
It really does!
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 3y
A bommy is a small metal plate attached to the side of old wooden ships. It would be attached outside the ship a few feet above the water line. A metal knocker was fixed to the bommy with a small float. If the ship started to take on water or loaded to much cargo, the ship would sit lower in the water and the knocker would hit the bommy, alerting the crew of potential problems.
Sounds good at least...
abclop99@beehaw.org · -1 pts · 3y
Knocks boms
luthis@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 3y
It's a flail. Like a wooden stick with a chain and a solid metal ball on the end
dan@startrek.website · 3 pts · 3y
Never heard it before. I googled it in incognito tab, just in case.
Looks like a mace.
abclop99@beehaw.org · 3 pts · 3y
Knocks boms
fiasco@possumpat.io · 2 pts · 3y
Sounds like gin and tea, served hot with a twist of lemon.
Wahots@pawb.social · 2 pts · 3y
An insult, a sex act, and/or a drink.
fubo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
A sort of monster with a butt fixation.
chrizbie@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 3y
Yikes
FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Duchess@yiffit.net · 1 pts · 3y
gibberish phrase from a children's story i don't know?
TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 3y
A blocker? (Sports or hormones?)
Thinking rhyming slang.
TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 3y
:::spoiler spoiler
Gonna knock your bommy off, apparently!
:::
Scooter411@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
Made up nonsense.
konalt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
British schoolyard game
iamhazel@beehaw.org · 1 pts · 3y
a right ass I'll bet
simple@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Some kind of door knocker?