Etymological question -- "waller" a hole

It's southern slanf for wallow - as in a Hog Wallow - a mud-hole dug out or yallowed out by a hog. Used to describe a hole that has been enlarged unintentionally by being a loose fit - wallered out

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The hogs on my uncle's farm in the red clay flatlands of Georgia had turned all of their pen into a gooey smelly waller, but Grandpa's on the mountain hadn't. Different soil and better drainage, I reckon.

They have some different language and pronunciation there that they loved to tease us NH Yankees with. A peCAHN is a nut, a pee-can is a urinal.

I could like living there if it wasn't so hot and humid in summer. It's 57F in here and I've acclimated to it.

On an excavator's youtube work channel out of Derby Indiana, called Dirt Pefect, I just heard them say that vehicles repeatedly going through a low area in a filed had "wallered out a ditch." In rural West Virginia I often heard this term used to mean the unintentional widening of a hole, like a bolt hole, and I may have heard it usd to meana the intentional wiening of a hole. What I have not heard discussed here (?) is its use to mean the wearing away of threads on a bolt, which I also heard in West Virginia from auto mechanics.

Yer about 3 years late to the discussion , f****it .

On an excavator's youtube work channel out of Derby Indiana, called Dirt Pefect, I just heard them say that vehicles repeatedly going through a low area in a filed had "wallered out a ditch." In rural West Virginia I often heard this term used to mean the unintentional widening of a hole, like a bolt hole, and I may have heard it usd to meana the intentional wiening of a hole. What I have not heard discussed here (?) is its use to mean the wearing away of threads on a bolt, which I also heard in West Virginia from auto mechanics.

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The South has lots of localisms, such as "feature" meaning resemble, i.e. you feature your dad. However TV announcers in Atlanta (and Boston) speak like the rest of the US.

John Hickey snipped-for-privacy@example.com on Sun, 01 Sep 2024 02:45:03 +0000 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

"Waller" comes from making a "wallow" - what pigs do in mud, mostly to stay cool. A waller not a well defined hole, so it is what happens to roads, holes you drill that for some reason are more oval than round, or holes / spots which over time have become out of spec if they ever were one.

What about drilled holes that come out trianguloid in shape?

What about drilled holes that come out trianguloid in shape? Bob La Londe CNC Molds N Stuff

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Dunno 'bout that, but a 3-cornered drill that makes a square hole is a Reuleaux triangle.

We don't talk about such goings on.