>>Hey, you've got me there! However, I should have said "... a succinct, short USEFUL word...", that being an expression I can more or less guarantee I'll never have to use in my life.
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>Both words are in widespread use.

Yes, that's as maybe, but I can count on zero hands the number of times I've ever said "Take the shoes off the sheet metal worker"

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>>However(2) The verb "to shoe" is to put the shoes on (someone/thing)
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>The only context in which I met this verb was equine. "Have the horses shod". Never heard it applied to human feet.

No, people may say, "although the bridge was down we managed to cross the river dry-shod", "I may be poor, but my kids are fed, clothed and shod"

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>> so UI expect to unshoe is the opposite. As fow the worker, I imagine there's a shorter, colloguial name for one, say a "sheety", so I expect someone who may have to use the expression would probably say "unshoe the sheety" - 5 syllables, the same :-)
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>Not quite the same - "sheety" may be the guy doing the linnen, or Excel as well. Ambiguous to the hilt.

I don't work in the industry (does ANYONE still in UK) so I don't know the name - that was just for an example. A radio operator is a "sparks", a carpenter is a "chippy", a man who works a lathe is a "turner", for example. Even so, one would know, AGAIN, BY CONTEXT.


BTW, what's this to do with a contest?
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>"Limar" is something you go to school to become, something you put in the name of your shop, or if it's a "body shop" (now here's a weird expression), you write "autolimar". No slang here. It's an old word, and in official use.