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corn-roast

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

A party at which green maize is roasted and eaten.

ExampleMeaning
... she was always there. She was always there to get us up in the morning and- and ah yeah they didn't- very seldom did they go- the only time they would go out is to other neighbouring farms where card parties would be going on or corn roast in the fall and yeah.
A party at which green maize is roasted and eaten.

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
Speaker: You were saying like how was it like on the farm, or how you did things. Well the hay, you cut up the (inc) and then you raked it with the rake. I should go back to when my grandfather came there though. You cut it with a- what they called a cradle. Interviewer: Cradle? Speaker: Yeah, it was like a scythe, only way thicker than a scythe the blade was three or four inches wide. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: And still curved like a scythe, and then there was a- a light stick came up like this about that high and then it had fingers come around.
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’

Cripes

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

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

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: And the alcoholic priest. Interviewer: Alcoholic priest? Speaker: Yeah. Oh cripes. Interviewer: What did he do? Speaker: Oh, not much in (inc) I don't think.
Vulgar perversion of Christ n. in the exclamation (by) cripes!

Crud

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1940, OED Evaluation: Originally U.S. Slang

A despicable or undesirable person or thing; nonsense, rubbish.

ExampleMeaning
No no, even ah on one of the shore, if you go down there it's ah ah all crud that comes up, washes up in the water you-know like ah probably from the different things that they say come down the river like from farmer's ah fields.
Disgusting substance

Cutter

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1803, OED Evaluation: Canada and U.S.

A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Well I- I- I left Beaverton before- if you're looking for history, um, you want to interview very many people who went to church in a horse and cutter. Interviewer: What's that? Speaker: You don't know what a cutter is? Interviewer: No I don't know what a cutter is. Speaker: A cutter is ah, a winter conveyance, that ah, horse pulls. Got runners on it. Interviewer: Oh like a sleigh. Speaker: Yeah, like- like sleigh. O-- only it's got a- a seat for two people and ah, as I mentioned my- my mother ah in ah, church, you didn't miss church and ah, we would ah- we would often be snowed in-
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons.
ExampleMeaning
Because that was of course a way to bring fishing to town so he would take a horse and a cutter out to the- out to the fish rounds and bring the fish back into town by the groceries, take them back out of the fisherman because at times the fisherman would- would stay out on Lake-Simcoe for a month.
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons.

dandy - 1

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1794, OED Evaluation: orig. U.S.

Fine, splendid, first-rate. colloq.

ExampleMeaning
I can remember one time, um, we were inoculating ah, yearlings. And we had this grey-colt and he was a dandy colt and he went on. We sold him to good advantage and he made almost four-hundred-thousand-dollars for the people that bought him but whoa, is he feisty.
Fine, splendid, first-rate.

Dog Patch

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1946, OED Evaluation: U.S.

(The type of) an unsophisticated, impoverished rural community.

ExampleMeaning
And Hornepayne was like Dog Patch. Ah, it was a pretty wild town.
A wild, rural community.

Dray

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1369, OED Evaluation: N/A

A sled or cart without wheels, formerly much used for dragging wood, turf, etc.

ExampleMeaning
And- and kids, they weren't told to watch out for the cars, they would watch out for the horses and drays.
A truck or cart to deliver heavy loads.
Speaker: Big work horses, yeah and these drays they would ah carry- Interviewer: What's a dray? Speaker: A dray would- ah it's a flat wagon and ah they would put the stuff on there and ah they would take stuff to the station or from the station to the stores and ah anything that needed to carted or conveyed would be taken with a truck now is taken by that.
A truck or cart to deliver heavy loads.

drift - 1

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1400, OED Evaluation: N/A

An accumulation of snow, sand, etc., driven together by the wind.

ExampleMeaning
Oh no, there was snow storms and-that but, I remember on time we had a snow storm and ah, the guys went ahead of the snow plough and dug out the big drifts so that they could get through it because they couldn't begin to get through it on their own. Yeah.
Large mass of snow
Interviewer: D-- do you- that was a big storm, do you remember any other big storms (inc)? Speaker: Oh no, there was snow storms and-that but, I remember on time we had a snow storm and ah, the guys went ahead of the snow plough and dug out the big drifts so that they could get through it because they couldn't begin to get through it on their own. Yeah.
An accumulation of snow, sand, etc., driven together by the wind.

drole

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

dryly humorous

ExampleMeaning
And they'd been married over fifty years and Melly and I had been married almost fifty but not quite, so after they all left I said to Joe, "You-know," I said "You and I married two Catholic girls." And I said "And we got along good." And Joe was kind-of a drole guy and he says "By golly," he said "That's right! We had over a hundred years!" Between the two of us.
dryly humorous

Druggist

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1608, OED Evaluation: N/A

A person who prepares and dispenses medicinal drugs

ExampleMeaning
Except one. He was a- he was a druggist here in Beaverton. Went through for a druggist. And ah, well they were- yeah they were all in their- they were- some of them were a little older than I was.
Pharmacist

Fart around

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1900, OED Evaluation: NA

To fool about or around; to waste time.

ExampleMeaning
And me and my friend, we go and then this one year I got really mad I had to leave early and we just wanted to hang out and just fart around and-stuff so it was kind of disappointing.
To fool about or around; to waste time.

Fireman

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1657, OED Evaluation: NA

One who attends to a furnace or the fire of a steam-engine.

ExampleMeaning
You-know, the engineer and- and fireman and conductors and-that-kind-of-stuff, but ah-
One who attends to a furnace or the fire of a steam-engine.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: I really didn't know what I was going to do, I was going to go back and do grade-thirteen and I didn't because my uncle phoned and they were hiring firemen- Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: On the railroad and I hadn't even thought about it but anyway that's where I ended up for five-and-a-half years, fireman on the railway.
One who attends to a furnace or the fire of a steam-engine.
Interviewer: As a firefighter, you were- Speaker: Firemen. Yeah, we're not- firemen as in ma-- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Firing the locomotives, not a firefighter. Interviewer: No, no no. Speaker: No. Interviewer: Fire- sorry, firemen. Speaker: Right (laughs). Interviewer: Not a firefighter. Speaker: Now they use the term for firefighters. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: No, you were a fireman.
One who attends to a furnace or the fire of a steam-engine.

Flat pan

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

NA

ExampleMeaning
And ah she made her own soap, from this- when you kill the pigs and-stuff she'd save the- the fat in one-thing-or-another and- and made her- I remember the big flat pan she'd make it in, cut it all in squares and ah- and all- like there's-
A large round pan made of stone.

For to

Parf of speech: Preposition, OED Year: 1175, OED Evaluation: Now arch. or vulgar. Cf. French pour, German um zu.

Before an inf., usually for to, (Sc. till), indicating the object of an action; = ‘in order (to)’.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Did you go to Beaverton high-school? Speaker: Yeah, mm-hm. Interviewer: Oh, in town. Speaker: Yeah, uh-huh. Interviewer: What was that like? It was a big change probably. Speaker: Oh yeah, yeah. We had to go there for to write our- We had to go there to write our grade-eight exam.
In order to