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Old 22nd June 2016, 03:38 PM   #14
Roland_M
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Originally Posted by fernando
Sorry to come up with a recurrent source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuller_(weapon)

This because in my home language we mainly (only) use the term 'goteira' (from the Latin gutta =drop ) as for blood dripping, although we (some) are aware this is a fantasy.
It would however be interesting to know how such connotation was born ... semantic wise.

Hi Fernando,

it's the same in Germany. We call it blood groove (Blut-Rinne). I think this term was invented by civilians or maybe authors of adventure books about war. My own father is one of the people which really believe, that the groove was made to led the blood away from body with more efficiency or similar stupid stuff.


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