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hired man

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1639, OED Evaluation: U.S.

Applied to free men or women engaged as servants.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Do you remember making maple syrup? Speaker: Oh I remember that very well because it- and it was quite a task. We tapped something like three-hundred trees which was huge for the times because my dad and a hired man tapped all those trees by hand with a brace-and-bit and you put the spile in-
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks.
Speaker: What- what my brother and I were d-- I have a brother th-- had a brother that was a- a year and a half younger, we would ah, drive the team- Interviewer: Oh wow! Speaker: Of horses and we had two big gathering tanks. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And ah, my dad and the hired man from either side would gather- gather sap. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And the other thing I can remember about making maple syrup was if you had three days of real heavy run, then um, ah, my dad and the hired man couldn't keep up to boiling it. Interviewer: Aw. Speaker: And ah, occasionally my brother and I would be ah, kept out of school to keep the fire on during the day light.
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks.
ExampleMeaning
... after the war we had, the Czechoslovakian immigrant came over and ah, he couldn't speak English but they'd come over, they had to spent like two years on a farm so he was a hired man and we taught how to speak English and he taught us how to swim.
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks.
ExampleMeaning
... that flu epidemic of nineteen-eighteen and nineteen. So he hired my mother who had just got out of public school to look after the two little girls. She was sixteen then eh. And then ah he hired another lady to look after the house 'cause he had two or three hired men especially in the summertime and, one near home, my grandfather was there and ah- and the two girls, my two older sisters- half-sisters but they're always our sister you-know.
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks.
They were between- next door to us, and Earl had two houses; one for the hired man, one for themselves. So he had the the two houses, he needed one more. So he asked Dad and Dad said no he had one more payment left on the farm and kind-of, he borrowed the money from ah from the government.
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks.
And they were short. My dad and- they were thick-set heavy arms and everything. And I was a p-- near a foot taller than he was but- but not not that much, about six inches I guess. But anyways, and he could lift stuff eh. So the hired men from the farm down the road come up to (inc) when the- when the gas truck come in and fill the barrels.
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks.
Speaker: ... that'll be four hundred and fifty pounds, a little lighter than that. But then you had the weight of the seal barrel, and he picked that up and put it there. Interviewer: He picked it up! Speaker: I heard, so then one day down the road, where the hired man- this hired man was working, that guy come in there. And this was a great big guy, farmer down there he was- weighed probably two forty or-so but he was a little bit on the pudgy side so.
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks.
So anyways the Old Ebbe picks us up and- Old Don. And he'd been an alcoholic, lived in Montreal. And ah a hired man was giving us the history. He was a German fellow. He and his wife, Arie and Burt-Gram, they were great people and they- they ah- they kind-of give us the history of the farm.
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks.
ExampleMeaning
... I didn't- I knew who he was and you-know but I don't know whether we ever- now I know that his father was the hired man. There were lots of hired men around because often me-- the husbands would be killed in farm accidents but there weren't- ...
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks.

Holy mackerel

Parf of speech: Exclamation, OED Year: 1944, OED Evaluation: N/A

used as an oath or expletive

ExampleMeaning
Holy mackerel! You didn't record all that did you?
used as an oath or expletive

Honky-tonk

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1889, OED Evaluation: Colloquial. Originally U.S.

A disreputable entertainment venue, later spec. a cheap, sleazy bar or nightclub, typically one where country music is played. In early use also: a variety show featuring acts regarded as disreputable or of low quality, associated with such a venue. Also in extended use. Now chiefly hist.

ExampleMeaning
And ah bars and taverns hadn't open. They were barely in existence then. So entertainment was strictly dance halls. There was no honky-tonks to go to and drink and hear music.
a type of bar with loud country music

horse-blanket

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1818, OED Evaluation: N/A

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: And the horses were trotting down that highway, cold night. We were covered up in horse blankets and the chimes on the- I've never forgotten that. Interviewer: Wow, I got shivers when you said that. Speaker: Yeah, it was lovely.
A blanket worn by passengers riding a horse-drawn carriage, buggy, or sleigh, especially in the winter.
Speaker: Yeah, it was lovely. Speaker 2: (inc) straw on the bottom of the sleigh and- and likely robs over us. Speaker: Dad had the horse blankets over us. Speaker: Mm-hm, yeah. Speaker: All covered up. But I can hear those chimes up (inc). Interviewer: Yeah, that's perfect for Christmas.
A blanket worn by passengers riding a horse-drawn carriage, buggy, or sleigh, especially in the winter.

House mom

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

NA

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Do you remember what she did during the war? Speaker: Oh, she was a house mom during the war.
Homemaker.

house trailer

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1921, OED Evaluation: U.S.

A caravan or (now esp.) mobile home.

ExampleMeaning
Well we started- when we started camp first, the first we-- camp we had ah, um, tent trailer. ... And then we bought a little house trailer. And ah, we put it- we put it- we went all across Canada with it.
A caravan or (now esp.) mobile home.

hunt camp

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Sometimes it'd be after hours, he said "I'll leave it between the doors." And you'd go down, pick it up and, whatever you needed and. One time he even give me- it we-- were deer-hunting season, and we started up a hunt camp there about twenty-something years ago. My wife was getting, so I couldn't leave anymore so we- they opened up a season here in- in Brock Township.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
There weren't many deer up there. It used to be really good, but I had a laugh one day, they called it the tin house 'cause the tin- the tin camp or-something, there were more near Ottawa. And they built this tin hunt camp up on ah legs up off the ground. And there was steps, five or six steps up into it. Novemember was the hunt. So we went up in October and- my friend and I and
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
The Vietnam draft dodgers come up here to Canada? ... Well they had a group ah there must have been oh maybe twenty that came up into that area and kind-of lived in the bush. And one day I was going down this bush trail, there was another hunt camp on in from us about a mile and a younger guy he was walking this way and I met him and we were standing there talking. He said "Did you see where those two live?" They'd built their hunt camp there. Said "Did you see where they lived the first winter?" And I said "No." He said "Come with me."
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
So we did have a deer hanging up, I forgot about. So we had a roadkill and a rabbit and I-don't-know partridge, and a mouse hanging up. That was our kill for the first- first day. So the other guys had drop in from the other hunt camps you-know for a beer in the evening.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage
Interviewer: I bet you have some pictures of that one. Speaker: Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah I don't know. I don't know where that book is now. They gave me I think- they gathered up a bunch of the pictures and- 'cause I was- Gus and I it was sort-of our hunt camp but our place was the headquarters. And so at the end of the season they'd usually give us something like you-know. And they- and they made up a- a- a book of pictures- of all the pictures we'd- they'd taken and-everything.
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage