26 Mar
2009
26 Mar
'09
4:28 a.m.
Roger Holmes wrote:
As to hacker, isn't an even older meaning, someone
who rides a horse in
a casual way? There is also the chiefly Somerset (UK) surname 'Hacker'
which according to the Oxford book or names means butcher or woodcutter.
You might talk about "hacking" as in just going for a gentle, possibly
fairly impropmptu ride. Off out to play with the horses, rather than
making a big thing of it.
I guess I'm a hacker in at least three senses, then.
Gordon