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In some variations of tag (called both “wood tag” and “tree tag”), if you touch a tree, you are “free.” The English say “touch wood” rather than “knock wood,” and tag might be the source of the English variant.
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Knocking on wood (i.e., on a tree), then, was an attempt to wake up the spirits and enlist their help
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Backing and filling means alternating having the sails “filled” with wind and then allowing the wind to escape by hauling “back” on the stays.
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As someone who uses words for a living, I have long wondered why I so effortlessly spew words or clichés whose origins I know nothing about.