An open portico or light roofed gallery extending along the front (and occas. other sides) of a dwelling or other building, freq. having a front of lattice-work, and erected chiefly as a protection or shelter from the sun or rain.
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And that was the night too I can remember (remember) the um- I don't- it was really windy and stormy, and my mother was always afraid of thunderstorms, had this terrible fear of thunderstorms, so we all had to get up and head to the basement, and there was cattle in the road across the road, and a tree broke the fence, and the cattle were up on the veranda. |
An open portico or light roofed gallery extending along the front (and occas. other sides) of a dwelling or other building. |
To stay awake or pass the night in prayer; to stay up during the night as an exercise of devotion; to keep vigil (in church, by a corpse, etc.).
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Yeah, the wake- yeah there was no- you didn't take someone to their- to a funeral home then, you waked them here. |
To stay awake or pass the night in prayer; to stay up during the night as an exercise of devotion; to keep vigil (in church, by a corpse, etc.). |
About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position?
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Speaker: Whereabouts do you guys live? Interviewer: I live on Pike-Lake on- on, um- used- Casey-P-- Potter used to live there. Speaker: Yeah, I'm not familiar with it. |
About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position? |
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Speaker 2: It's still there except there's about six cases of- ah floated to the surface- cheese. And it's just the only thing they salvaged. But down the bottom of the lake is whatever else was on that barge at the time. Speaker: And whereabouts did it offset? Speaker 2: It- yeah, it offset. It's just r-- ah- just around the (inc)- Speaker: But closer- Speaker 2: I'm sorry? Speaker: In the- up- up in the bay? Speaker 2: In the bay, yeah. And a fairly deep part of the lake. |
About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position? |
Swingletree - In a plough, harrow, carriage, etc., a crossbar, pivoted at the middle, to which the traces are fastened, giving freedom of movement to the shoulders of the horse or other draught-animal.
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Sometimes you're changing wires or working them on live wires and there's a thing between the cable and the whippletree so nobody could get shocked you-know. That time it was all wooden whippletrees anyways. |
Swingletree - In a plough, harrow, carriage, etc., a crossbar, pivoted at the middle, to which the traces are fastened, giving freedom of movement to the shoulders of the horse or other draught-animal. |
So I said would you take that couple of bales of hay in the whippletree and take it out to number seven highway there, ah- where you- where the end of the Perkin sideroad is down. |
Swingletree - In a plough, harrow, carriage, etc., a crossbar, pivoted at the middle, to which the traces are fastened, giving freedom of movement to the shoulders of the horse or other draught-animal. |
A road or a route used in winter when the ground is frozen or there is snow.
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But the way the picture was taken, it cut the horses off, they were on the (inc) sleigh, they must have been. Interviewer: So did you- did you go on a winter road down to here? Or the regular road? Speaker: There was some- some road off- off the main road. You just went up to the school and you left through it and you went in by where Kurt-Verhoeven lived. ... It come through the s-- the road- winter road comes through the swamp and out onto that road right- right near the corner. Of course there wasn't a corner there. The corner was out near Maberly then. |
A road or a route used in winter when the ground is frozen or there is snow. |
(Under bee) In allusion to the social character of the insect (originally in U.S.): A meeting of neighbours to unite their labours for the benefit of one of their number; e.g. as is done still in some parts, when the farmers unite to get in each other's harvests in succession; usually preceded by a word defining the purpose of the meeting, as apple-bee, husking-bee, quilting-bee, raising-bee, etc. Hence, with extended sense: A gathering or meeting for some object; esp. spelling-bee, a party assembled to compete in the spelling of words.
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Oh yeah, you'd have to walk, you-know, that's ah- and of course, people then were so conservative with everything. Like, when- when you were- went to one of these work bees, that was half a mile away and you took the horses and wagon, you'd have to walk the horses home on their lines so you wouldn't wear the wagon out, riding on it. |
Communal work activity. |
A contrivance, used from ancient times, by which two animals, esp. oxen, are coupled together for drawing a plough or vehicle; usually consisting of a somewhat curved or hollowed piece of wood fitted with ‘bows’ or hoops at the ends which are passed round the animals’ necks, and having a ring or hook attached to the middle to which is fastened a chain or trace extending backward by which the plough or vehicle is drawn. Also A frame fitted to the neck and shoulders of a person for carrying a pair of pails, baskets, etc.
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And this one here, I brought a yoke of oxen up from, ah, Nova-Scotia in nineteen-eighty-three and that's it there. |
A piece of wood or other such contrivance used to attach two animals near their necks. |
And, ah, those are just- that- I had those yoke oxen I sold to the Ontario government and- |
A piece of wood or other such contrivance used to attach two animals near their necks. |