Review of Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs: Harvesting and Threshing on the North American Plains and Plains Folk II: The Romance of the Landscape

For thirty years or so, I\u27ve wondered how to spell the word that referred to those little metal nipples I used to pump grease into when I was helping my dad grow wheat. It\u27s not in any dictionary I\u27ve ever seen, but it is in Thomas Isem\u27s account of the culture surrounding the reaping and threshing of small grains before the advent of the combine