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coon

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1742, OED Evaluation: Chiefly U.S.

The raccoon (Procyon lotor), a carnivorous animal of North America.

ExampleMeaning
he horses were in the field and they were very concerned about it and run over to the other side. But it didn't cause any trouble and went away on its trip. But I ah, liked sweet corn and of course the coons were- liked sweet corn too. And they would come to the garden in the fall and pair- tear down the corn and eat the sweet corn. Even when it was scarcely ready.
Racoon.
Speaker: Anyway as a rule I kept my dog inside at night to keep it from wandering around bothering the neighbours, but when the sweet corn was on, I'd let it- my dog out- Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: To try to keep the coons out. Interviewer: (inc) Speaker: And it was good at it. It would tree the coon and I'd get my gat- battery lantern and shoot the coon in the tree. This night about ten-o'clock, I hadn't gone to bed, I heard my dog barking. So I got my twenty-two loaded up, it was a repeater, and my battery lantern.
Racoon.
... with the groundhogs, it would slip up (laughs) on its belly and the- and the groundhog would go down, maybe come back up and the dog would grab it. I'd- I'd two or three dogs were really good to get groundhogs and I shot a lot myself. And the coons, I h-- hated coons too. They'd come to the barn and tear your feedbags apart and darted the hay and I shot every one of them I could too. The last year I was on the farm, I shot thirteen. Interviewer: Oh! Speaker: And ah, I didn't weep about any of them.
Racoon.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: So were they able to save the barn or did it burn down? Speaker: Oh no it burnt down. Interviewer: Yeah, it burnt down, yeah. Speaker: But, few hours later, when they'd a high hoe dissecting it, there was two coons come out of it. So they- so they have better lungs than a human has.
Racoon.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: I hope you like pussycats. Interviewer: I have two cats at home myself so it's no- Speaker: Yeah (inc) is a maine-coon cat, he's supposed to be a thoroughbred. He belonged to my neighbour and ah I've been looking after- my neighbour was- wasn't very well, she was on ah, um- how do you call it? She had to get air- oxygen all the time.
Racoon.

corn-roast

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1899, OED Evaluation: N. Amer.

A party at which green maize is roasted and eaten.

ExampleMeaning
That was- one of the Thickssons' main corn roasts was on the long weekend in September. So me and another guy cooked fifty-two dozen cobs of corn and drank a bit of rye.
A party at which green maize is roasted and eaten.

cow-pad

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1941, OED Evaluation: N/A

A patch of cow-dung.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: ... things you remember, interesting things that happened when you were farming or working in the bulldozers. Speaker: Yes I got- ah, there was two of us working on a bulldozer up at um, above Calabogie and ah, we were about a mile apart and there was a trail, up- a (inc) track, cowpad through the- this hardwood bush.... So I thought I'd go over have lunch- eat my lunch with it- with the other guy. ... And there was a bunch of (inc) about the height of the table there. ... And the pad went through them and all at once, this old lady stood up and give me a roar at me.
A patch of cow-dung.

cradle

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1573, OED Evaluation: Agricultural

A light frame of wood attached to a scythe, having a row of long curved teeth parallel to the blade, to lay the corn more evenly in the swathe; ‘a three forked instrument of wood on which the corn is caught as it falls from the sithe’

ExampleMeaning
I keep thinking about ah the progress of- of the farmers from where it started way back with the ah, I guess with the cradle and then they got up into the ah- the horses and- and and the dump rake. I- I did that for a little while, not too long.
A light frame of wood attached to a scythe, having a row of long curved teeth parallel to the blade, to lay the corn more evenly in the swathe; ‘a three forked instrument of wood on which the corn is caught as it falls from the sithe’

cream can

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1959, OED Evaluation: N/A

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker 2: Ethan-Watts played. Speaker: And my feet got so tired near the end of the evening. I went into the little kitchen and I sat on a cream can in my wedding dress. (laughs)
a large canister, usually metallic, used to store milk/cream as it awaits collection and processing at a dairy
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Yeah, so you had one container in the end, a smaller container of course with the cream and- and a larger container with the skim milk. And the skim milk then was fed to the calves or the pigs, whatever, and, um, the cream was the sold, ah- but it was just put into cream cans and the c-- and the cream cans were down in the basement of the house to keep them as cool as possible and they picked it up once a week. ... Interviewer: So you'd store it in a- how would you store it then? Speaker: Ah there was a, I guess you call it cream cans that were- oh, so big, I-don't-know what, maybe, I-don't- ten gallon or-something.
a large canister, usually metallic, used to store milk/cream as it awaits collection and processing at a dairy
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: ... how would you get the- the cream then down- down to the cheese factory in- Speaker: That was just milk that they took there I think. ... That ah the cream, the ah cream man as we call him came along with a smaller truck and he picked up all the cream cans and took them to Almonte, I think. ... Ah there was a big dairy in there.
a large canister, usually metallic, used to store milk/cream as it awaits collection and processing at a dairy
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Esther, can you tell us what happened to the milk? After you milked it? Speaker: Ah, separate it. You use- ah, we had to s-- we had to separate it- separated the cream from the milk and you- you p-- put the cream in the cream can with the- and it was sent every- about twice a week, I think it went. Yeah. So different back then it is now. Yeah.
a large canister, usually metallic, used to store milk/cream as it awaits collection and processing at a dairy
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: So you actually had storage for your milk? Speaker: Pretty good. Yeah, just a big drum with a- Speaker 2: It was a big drum at the well. Speaker: Eight- eight gallon cream cans in it and- ... And like you w-- had to pump water in a couple times a day to keep it cool until the truck showed up and-
a large canister, usually metallic, used to store milk/cream as it awaits collection and processing at a dairy
ExampleMeaning
Well, usually when the cream come out of the whole milk you sold the cream. Ah and you kept it in a cream can in the basement until ah- ... They came and picked it up.
a large canister, usually metallic, used to store milk/cream as it awaits collection and processing at a dairy

Cripes

Parf of speech: Exclamation, OED Year: 1910, OED Evaluation: NA

Vulgar perversion of Christ n. in the exclamation (by) cripes!

ExampleMeaning
And then three years ago, four years ago, he decided he was too old for this to carry one. And cripes he's only- that's another funny story.
Vulgar perversion of Christ n. in the exclamation (by) cripes!
That's the other can of worms. S-- the- you don't mind helping anybody out but cripes, there's got to be some loophole somewhere.
Vulgar perversion of Christ n. in the exclamation (by) cripes!
Anyway, I was heading down there and cripes, there was a big hole in the road that wasn't there this morning, eh?
Vulgar perversion of Christ n. in the exclamation (by) cripes!
I was heading down there and cripes, there was a big hole in the road that wasn't there this morning, eh? There was a big- cripes, there's a notorious pile of earth on the- on the road.
Vulgar perversion of Christ n. in the exclamation (by) cripes!
Running around the fairgrounds. Well cripes went out the main gate of the fairgrounds, heading to Almonte.
Vulgar perversion of Christ n. in the exclamation (by) cripes!

Crock

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1000, OED Evaluation: N/A

An earthen pot, jar, or other vessel

ExampleMeaning
But he- he'd a dill-- or, back kitchen about the size of this thing here and he'd- lined with crocks. And he- dandelion wine and rhubarb wine and beet wine.
Type of container