Cap end

I've just seen the term 'cap end' used in another thread, not heard it for ages, but most Barnsley folk know what it means.

What are the origins?

I'm assuming it's a mining term.

What is so bad about a cap end that it became a term of abuse?

 

Another term for bell end. Pretty obvious really.

 

Cap end, many years ago 20's 30's 40's and 50's most working men wore flat cap's, the cap neb or cap end was made out of hard plastic and if tha got a clip rand earoil with the cap end tha new abart it. Ense the saying "tha'll get a bit o' Cap end".

 

I thought earoil was something you used to get rid of ear wax

 

I saw on one of Dave Cherry's videos about old pits, where.. snap.. came from.

The old miners took down the pit a metal tin with food in for their break. it used to snap shut.. to keep the contents as air tight/dust free as possible. And so was known as a snap tin. So then the contents became known as your snap..

 

As an ex-miner I'll let you into a secret the metal snap tins were used to stop the mice getting in.
I'll also tell you this if you ate an orange down the pit you could smell it all around the district.
Dodworth Colliery was known as the fat and bread pit.

 

Tykeored, were do you come from?

 

Hemingfield originally. I understood your post ok - Mine was a feeble attempt at humour.
I used to work in a machine shop in deedar land. The use of "oil" for "hole" used to flumax them a lot, especially "coiloil"