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Who invented the skip? (person or company). Where are those mostly used? (countries). Dis-/advantages?
The origin of the word ‘Skip’
To get to the bottom of the mystery, we must first turn to the ancient art of bee-keeping. Before wooden framed hives came into use, European and British beekeepers either used inverted straw or wicker baskets or hollow logs to house their honeybee colonies. The straw "skep" proved the most portable and adaptable to beekeepings' improving techniques, slowly the log and then the wicker skep went out of use. In continental Europe, where traditional agricultural systems survived until after the second world war, the straw skep retained some popularity, but in Britain where land use lost its traditional forms in the 18th century, the skep came to be seen as part of the old order and by the 19th century was no longer regarded as a suitable permanent home for the honeybee colony.
The word ‘skep’ then, once a common name for any type of basket is nowadays only used in relation to this traditional artform. But before it disappeared from the common tongue, it was adopted by the cotton mill workers of Lancashire who referred to the huge wheeled baskets they placed their woven cotton into as ‘skeps’. In addition, a method of drying the material in the cloth-method process was called ‘wuzzing’. Damp cloth was placed into a ‘wuzzing skep’ – a basket attached to a pole - and whirled around making a wuzzing noise. Centrifugal force forced the water out of the cloth.
From the cotton mills then to the coal mines. At the beginning of the industrial revolution, when technology was still in its rudimentary stages, coal was dug and measured in terms of ‘skeps’. In the mining industry a skep was a basket with an arched handle used as a measure of coal. We know that in Denmark a skep held 17.4 litres, so presumably an English skep would have been around the same. As industrial innovation progressed, railway lines were built into the mines, the skeps were once again wheeled, and coal hauled out of the mines more efficiently. It soon became evident that straw was not the most robust material for shifting hunks of coal and manufacturers developed steel versions of skeps. Over the years skep became skip and the containers are still referred to as such in modern coal mines. When the bins we use came over from Germany in the early sixties, the shape of them resembled the coal skips so it was a logical step to name them thus
Good point. Could be the word 'skip' has been used to mean a vessel into which waste products are put before disposal.
It may have originally been called 'a waste disposal skip', but this has been shortened to 'skip'.
A rubbish skip (in American English classed as a type of dumpster) is a large open-topped container designed for loading onto a special type of truck. ...
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because ''skips'' mean lots of things one of them is vissle and it also means go toward faster and both could give you an answer.
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If they were called "jumps", rooftop suicides would increase.
skep
(also skip)
• noun 1 a straw or wicker beehive. 2 archaic a wooden or wicker basket.
— ORIGIN Old Norse, basket, bushel.
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