We call that
the blunt end.
The other end is called the pointy end, because it points in the direction you are going.
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Craymen,
Tue 4 Jun 2002, 20:18,
archived)
Aha!
So, you work for the Admiralty then Mike?
(
grinfish redux I can remember when all this were eels,
Tue 4 Jun 2002, 20:22,
archived)