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go-devil orig. and chiefly U.S.|ˈgəʊdɛv(ə)l, ˈgəʊdɛvɪl|
[f. go v. + devil n.]
A name for various contrivances used in farming, logging, drilling for oil, etc. (see quots.).
1835Knickerbocker Apr. 273 Led on by what they call in school-sports, a go-devil, prancing about in high horns, and a spear on the end of his tail. 1852C. L. Fleischmann Wegweiser 173 In Indiana und Illinois bedient man sich zum Zudecken der Maiskörner einer Art Hacke, welche unter dem Namen Goe-Devil bekannt ist. 1885Harper's Mag. June 14/2 The graceful ‘go-devil’ rake,..gathering up the hay with all the ease of a lady's carpet⁓sweeper. 1886St. Nicholas Nov. 48/1 A queer-looking, pointed piece of iron, called the ‘go-devil’, is dropped down the well, and [strikes]..a cap on the top of the torpedo. 1889Cent. Dict., Go-devil,..a movable-jointed contractible apparatus..introduced into a pipe-line for the purpose of freeing it from obstructions... A rough sled used for holding one end of a log in hauling it out of the woods, etc. 1896B. Redwood Petroleum I. 275 To explode the charge, an iron weight, known as a go-devil, was dropped into the well, and, striking the disc, exploded the cap and fired the torpedo. Now, however, a miniature torpedo known as a go-devil squib..is almost invariably employed. Ibid. II. 473 To remove obstructions in the pipes..an automatic rotary scraper is forced through... The scraper is known as a ‘go-devil’. 1931Walters (Okla.) Herald 19 Feb. 6/4 Farm Implements (Advt.), 1 2-row go-devil. 1931Randolph Enterprise (Elkins, W.Va.) 1 Jan. 1/1 We had to [open the roads]..with..sleighs, ‘Yankee Jumpers’ and ‘Go Devils’. 1937D. Lutes Home Grown 64 Old Man Covell came over to borrow a go-devil with which to split a stubborn log. 1958Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxx. 13 Go-devil.., a U-shaped rig for skidding logs. 1959Times 13 Apr. 14/2 A piece of equipment called a ‘go devil’ is inserted every 24 hours at one end of the pipe and it emerges some hours later at the other end. 1959New Scientist 30 Apr. 963/2 ‘Go-devils’ have been used to scour and clean out oil, gas and water pipes... The go-devil, a sort of torpedo with rubber washers, scraper vanes or wire brushes mounted on it, is forced through the pipe under air or water pressure. 1960Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxxiv. 42 Go-devil, V-shaped ditch-cleaner. 1961Amer. Speech XXXVI. 268 A rather confusing situation exists with regard to go-devil in Colorado. One Colorado informant even explains the word as a generic term for ‘all kinds of contraptions’... It may, in eastern Colorado, refer to a cultivator, but several times it clearly means ‘buck rake’. In central and western Colorado it is much more likely to refer to a Y-shaped ditch cleaner. 1962Lebende Sprachen VII. 8/1 Pipelines are regularly cleaned by a bristling metal contraption known as a ‘go-devil’. This device scrapes out the coating of sludge which collects inside the pipe. |