go-devil

go-dev·il

(gō′dĕv′əl)

1. A logging sled.

2. A railway handcar.

3. A jointed tool for cleaning an oil pipeline and disengaging obstructions.

4. An iron dart dropped into an oil well to explode a charge of dynamite.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

go′-dev`il

1. a sled used to drag or carry logs, stone, etc.

2. a field cultivator that rides on wooden runners and is used on listed furrows.

[1825–35, Amer.]

Go-devil

Another name for a sled-lister cultivator. The name go-devil was also sometimes applied locally to various other farm implements.

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"I can sit in Minnesota and look at reservoirs and lakes in Canada and the Dakotas before launching my 20-foot Go-Devil boat with surface-drive mud motor on a long shaft.

PIKE IN LIMBO

With the Go-Devil boat blind, you can run across the water with the blind laying flat, then simply raise it into position and lock it into place with two brass clips to hunt.

Blinds

IT'S A MECHANICAL ARMY MULE with a power-pulsing "Go-Devil" heart ...

What is a Jeep?

She was a go-devil climber and, in her private letters, a model of vigor and honesty.

Woman on the rocks; the mountaineering letters of Ruth Dyar Mendenhall

The Go-Devil motor churned through dense mats of aquatic vegetation that would have stalled traditional outboards.

Lady's choice: the three R's of retriever appeal

This Go-Devil blind can be taken down with a few D-clip pins once the four aluminum bases are installed.

Blinds

The column I wrote for the January 2006 issue of Farm Collector ("What the Dickens is a Go-Devil?") generated more than 30 responses from all over the country.

Go-Devil calls its long-tail mud motors the "four-wheel drive" of marine engines.

Waterfowl gear

Thanks to Delbert Trew for the article on the Go-Devil (Farm Collector, January 2006, page 27).

Trew article spurs recollection of Go-Devil use

All Go-Devil motors are built to bomb-proof specifications, including the toughest frame in the industry.

Mud motors

Longtail and Surface-Drive Motors Go-Devil has long been known as one of the first production mud motors made in the United States.

Waterfowling gear

The heavy object was called a "go-devil." In Texas oil field history, the same heavy object was referred to as a "torpedo."

What the dickens is a go-devil? Homegrown cultivators marked by farmer ingenuity

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