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ice house

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1666, OED Evaluation: Hist.

A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place.

ExampleMeaning
Yeah before ah electric came in ah most of the houses had ice houses in the farms, that's how they cooled the original milk here. We had an ice house here on the- the farm and it was part of the ritual that a certain time in the winter when the river ice got thick enough, you would have bees and ah go out and hand saw the ice and then in later days, one of the ah residents in the township had a motor driven ice saw that they could cut the blocks of ice and an elevator that then would put it up on the sleighs, and you filled your ice house every winter and then covered it with sawdust to slow down the meltdown of it. And I can just remember the ice house here at Tayside farms ah was still, the remains of that were still there but then the ah- because it was wooden construction, the years of having moisture around it, it deteriorated to the point where it was torn down.
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place.

jeepers

Parf of speech: Exclamation, OED Year: 1929, OED Evaluation: slang (orig. U.S.)

Jeez

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Okay. And when did your family um immigrate to this part of the world? Speaker 09: Oh jeepers. Well, they immigrated- I think I'm really a Scottish heritage.
Jeez
ExampleMeaning
Okay, to take me back to- as far as I can remember- jeepers, I don't think I can remember anything earlier than when I was four or five years old. Some people can but I sure can't.
Jeez
And when I look back at my home life when I was a little kid, I think of- I think now how lucky I was and, you-know, to- to some of the, ah, grief that goes on in today's living. And jeepers, my dad and mother, I can't believe now how smart they were. I didn't think that then.
Jeez

Kit and caboodle

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1848, OED Evaluation: Slan. Originally U.S.

(caboodle only) the whole caboodle: the whole lot (of persons or things).

ExampleMeaning
And my dad did what you call custom hatching of eggs for all kinds of other farmers because they didn't want to be bothered with the time or didn't have the building and the facilities with a brooder stove and the whole kit-and-caboodle, so-
the whole lot

Legion

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1919, OED Evaluation: N/A

Any of various national associations of ex-servicemen and (now) ex-servicewomen instituted after the First World War.

ExampleMeaning
But, ah, the other day Elmer phoned and said he was going- when he was going by to see his brother he left this, ah, Legion magazine. ... I don't- I don't think all the Legion magazines would be the same but this is a special edition, I guess- ... For this time of year.
Any of various national associations of ex-servicemen and (now) ex-servicewomen instituted after the First World War.

like a jackass eating thistles

Parf of speech: Expression, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Ah, you-know, dad would make a comment of somebody that was just a- a little- he- ah, of course when he said somebody was a little bit different, that left pretty wide- wide open now just which way different are they. And he would say, "Well, you-know, when you see somebody with a grin on their face like a jackass eating thistles, it's really something." You-know?
To smile very wide.

livery stable

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1661, OED Evaluation: N/A

A stable where horses are kept at livery (livery n. 6a), or (now hist.) are let out for hire (with or without a carriage).

ExampleMeaning
... he had one special pony that he would hook to a buggy and take in. But he had to get into the town of Perth in time to unhook the horse and buggy, put it in the livery stable behind the, ah, what is now- or was known as the Imperial Hotel, and then walk several blocks to the high school.
A stable where horses are kept at livery (livery n. 6a), or (now hist.) are let out for hire (with or without a carriage).

log house

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1662, OED Evaluation: N/A

a house constructed of logs

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Now this is the- they call this the Timmins house. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: And that's way over here, across the river. And it is a log house, by the way. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: It's still a log house. Now this one, I went up as far- ah, Brockton's.
A house constructed of logs
ExampleMeaning
And there was this old log house that supposedly, I-guess, was the first one that we had as the chicken house. So, that was when the-- na-- I guess he built the house that's there now, and raised his family in that. And he married Marie-Norman. Which is another name-
A house constructed of logs
ExampleMeaning
Like you start at that end and come directly up the Scotch-Line. They- the original settlers came up Grant's-Creek and they settled at the back. They'd have a little log house there and then they slowly developed the Scotch-line and ah- one farm at a time.
A house constructed of logs
across the road from the school. Ah now they moved his grave to ah the old burial ground ah, but he taught in that lower school for a little while too. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Yeah, so it was around for quite a while. It actu-- it, that school was sitting across where the log house is at one time. You know where the log house is on the corner, the side road here on Scotch-line?
A house constructed of logs

lower school

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1725, OED Evaluation: N/A

The lower forms or year groups of a school.

ExampleMeaning
We were all there. Anyway, we got transferred to the sch-- middle-school, that year, they transferred the Kravets and that from the lower school up- up- so that fell- because when we went last, there was only about four or five in that school. But- but then they transferred them, so that left the whole school full. So then ah- their lower school, from the Glen-Tay sideroad, went to- the Kravets went down, and- and- and we came up!
The lower forms or year groups of a school.
ExampleMeaning
And that ah um, James-Halliwell that was the first school teacher in Perth, was buried just across the road from the school. Ah now they moved his grave to ah the old burial ground ah, but he taught in that lower school for a little while too. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Yeah, so it was around for quite a while. It actu-- it, that school was sitting across where the log house is at one time.
The lower forms or year groups of a school.
ExampleMeaning
Okay. The kids, nowadays, play school- one school plays another. There was no such thing as the Upper-Scotch-Line playing the Centre-Scotch-Line or the Lower-School. Because, as Dad said, you'd them god-damn Kennedies and Kellers and two Dades just thrown in to boot, and they're all a bunch of god-damn delinquents up there.
The lower forms or year groups of a school.

many a time

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1680, OED Evaluation: N/A

on many occasions, in many instances; often, frequently.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: It was near three miles, walking. Many a time our road wasn't ah open to- for a week even the mail driver with the horse-and-cutter were up on the embankment, that's where you were until they- took about a week to open the roads.
on many occasions, in many instances; often, frequently.

mickey

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1914, OED Evaluation: Colloq. (chiefly Canad.)

A small bottle of liquor, holding usually 375 ml (13 oz).

ExampleMeaning
When- when we had the flu or the cold, went to work and worked hard and got over it. Sweat her out. Um, if that didn't work bring home the mickey-remedy.
A small bottle of liquor, holding usually 375 ml (13 oz).
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: I shut down here, is there a story with the lightning and the phone? Is there a story there you can tell? Speaker: Not too much, only that it knocked me for a loop. (laughs) ... Interviewer: Alright? So you were just on the phone- Speaker: And then- and the kegs was here, the- Mickey and- somebody was sitting on the couch.
A small bottle of liquor, holding usually 375 ml (13 oz).

Milkhouse

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1554, OED Evaluation: NA

A dairy, a place for storing or selling milk.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Ah, in those- in those times, like, you were saying about my older brothers, they looked after milking the cows. But I was hauled in for to be the hauler of the milk from the- you-know, from the barn over to where we kept the milk in, ah- in the milkhouse. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And, of course, the milk had to be put into thirty gallon cans and, ah, again, ah, we had a- we had an icehouse, which was adjacent to the milkhouse, where a bit of ice would be thrown into the tubs where the cans were inserted into the water and, ah, of course, w-- well water was a big deal. Ah, so it was pumped from the, ah, wells by pipe down into the milkhouse and again it was just cold water from the well that was the- the main part- Interviewer: And- Speaker: Of cooling the milk. Interviewer: And where did the ice come from? Speaker: The ice was in- in the icehouse. It ca-- actually come out of McLaren's-Lake. In the wintertime it was brought home and because of the sawmill been so handy, ah, we used all kinds of sawdust to store, we had ice in September.
A dairy, a place for storing or selling milk.

Mind of

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1300, OED Evaluation: now only in Scotland

That which is remembered, a memory; the memory or record of (a person or thing)

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: (laughs) Oh yeah. And- and Cliff, going back, when you were a little boy, what kind of a farm did your mom and dad have? Speaker: Oh, it was mixed. We milked cows. I mind- I mind of milking twelve cows.
Remember