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Bodging (full name chair-bodgering[a]) is a traditional woodturning craft, using green (unseasoned) wood to make chair legs and other cylindrical parts of chairs. The work was done close to where a tree was felled. The itinerant craftsman who made the chair legs was known as a bodger or chair-bodger. According to Collins Dictionary, the use of ...
You might find the word bodge, meaning to botch or mend clumsily. However, actually a bodger was a skilled craftsman that made chair legs and braces. The craft of bodging goes back about five hundred years but I am unaware of anyone making a living as a bodger these days.
There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun bodger, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. This word is used in British English.
The Oxford Dictionary would tell you that a Bodger is a person who “repairs something badly or clumsily”. But not that long ago the word Bodger had another meaning, the “Bodgers” of Britain were proud woodturners working away in the countryside of Buckinghamshire, between London and Oxford.
What does the word bodger mean? There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the word bodger . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
Feb 17, 2001 · Many people have written to say that they know a bodger as a pointed instrument for various purposes. For example Doug Dew wrote: “From my childhood in Surrey, I have a vague memory of the use of the word bodger to mean a blunt stick or tool used to make holes in the ground for seeds”.
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Bodging (full name chair-bodgering) is a traditional woodturning craft, using green (unseasoned) wood to make chair legs and other cylindrical parts of chairs. The work was done close to where a tree was felled. The itinerant craftsman who made the chair legs was known as a bodger or chair-bodger.