The space for the axle is the crucial idea.
Throw a lovely pot,
It is the inside that can be filled.
Frame windows, make an archway for a door,
It is the opening that allows movement.
What is there gives shape,
What is not - allows possibility. Useful together.
Runcible Spoon.
The plate and cutlery trades have no knowledge of this utensil, which is mentioned in Edward Lear's Owl and the Pussy Cat:
They dined on mince and slices of quince
Which they ate with a runcible spoon.
Some who profess to know describe it as a kind of fork having three broad prongs, one of which has a sharp cutting edge.
-Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1963, p. 786
Which sounds a lot like a spork to me, but runcible spoon has a much more pleasing sound.
2 comments:
I've known people who refer to a slotted spoon as a runcible spoon... m, i prefer to keep it in the realm of fantasy. It just sounds so good.
Always making handles or lugs, look at the space as much as the handle itself. AS with the pot itself, it is the space contained within that does the work
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