05-18-2004, 08:15 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Queensland, Australia
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Brass Monkey
Though monkey was a term used in this context and era (the boys bringing charges to the guns from the magazine were known as powder monkeys and there is some evidence that a type of cannon was called a monkey in the mid seventeenth century), there is no evidence for the word being applied to a pile of cannon shot.
See ya learn something new every day *LOL*
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