Pop Goes the Weasel
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"Pop! Goes the Weasel" is a traditional old English song, a country dance, nursery rhyme, and singing game that emerged in the mid-19th century. The melody is often used in jack-in-the-box toys and is
Piano arrangement, 1853
From Singing Games (1890) by Josephine Pollard. Illustration by Ferdinand Schuyler Math
Spinner with weasel (right) and spinning wheel (left)
The Eagle, City Road, London
Spinner's weasel
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Spinner's weasel or clock reel is a mechanical yarn-measuring device consisting of a spoked wheel with gears attached to a pointer on a marked face and an internal mechanism that makes a "pop" sound a
Pop Goes the Weasel
…the phrase and song title, "Pop Goes the Weasel". Some say a weasel is a tailor's flat iron, silver-plate dishes, a dead animal, a hatter's tool, or a spinner's weasel. One writer notes, "Weasels do pop their heads up when disturbed and it is quite plausible that this was the source of the name of the dance." Just…
Popping mechanism
Spinner's weasel (left) and spinning wheel (right)
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