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DVA

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: But they closed down though before- ... And they made it into a motel. ... And there was nice big restaurant. And ah, but then that burnt down. And they're building ah, D-V-A buildings there now. Interviewer 2: What's D-V-A? Speaker: Um, for the ah, soldiers. You-know- Interviewer: Oh oh. ... Oh ah, Veteran's-Affairs. Speaker: Mm-hm. Veteran's-Affairs, yeah.
Department of Veterans' Affairs.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: And I know the government's building that new, ah- I-guess ah, what's it- not the foreign-affairs building- Interviewer: Oh D-V-A? Speaker: D-V-A, sorry I forgot the name, D-V-A. So they're investing another contract, ah, another building I-guess too in Kirkland-Lake. But there's lots of people, ah, that- they are always going to be working in forestry, in natural-resources besides mining.
Department of Veterans' Affairs.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Ah anyways, so they- they have a sawmill now and um yeah. So mining, sawmill, that's about hm where most of the jobs are, or D-V-A. I swear, if you're not in mining, you work at D-V-A. Interviewer 3: What's D-V-A? Speaker: It's a Department-of-Veterans-Affairs. Interviewer 3: Oh. Speaker: Or wait I think it's called V-A-C now, Veterans-Affairs-Canada for like the war and-stuff.
Department of Veterans' Affairs.

Easement

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1405, OED Evaluation: NA

The process or means of giving or obtaining ease or relief from pain, discomfort, or anything annoying or burdensome; relief, alleviation; †redress of grievances. Now somewhat rare.

ExampleMeaning
And ah the- the water lines were- the big water lines were under his basement floor, you-see? So we had a- a easement, what they call a easement that was granted way way back before the war- before this guy even owned it.
The process or means of giving or obtaining ease or relief from pain, discomfort, or anything annoying or burdensome; relief, alleviation; †redress of grievances. Now somewhat rare.

EI

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: No ah- I worked at Tim-Hortons. ... And then I did an internship at Veteran's-Affairs. ... And then I- I was on E-I for eight months (laughs).
Employment Insurance
ExampleMeaning
... I was almost eighty-five hours of my percentage for my hours to school but I hadn't got called away to school yet and there was some other little drama that happened and ah basically I was let go from there and I had applied for E-I but I was like- I'm not type of guy to just sit back and- you-know-what-I-mean, especially when I have kids, I had so much motivation and so much fire inside and ah-
Employment Insurance
And then I found a job at Heath-and-Sherwood on the hill here making almost less than I would if I was on E-I but it- it's still I was working, you-know, and ah I was basically waiting to get on at the mine for (inc) school and they stopped that and added to ah (inc) and then get on for cattle. It's basically ah the best that's ever happened ...
Employment Insurance

Fall

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1405, OED Evaluation: Now dial., U.S., Austral., and N.Z.

To cut down (trees).

ExampleMeaning
My father fell the logs and ah- and ah- and limbed them.
To cut down (trees).

Farm out

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1666, OED Evaluation: N/A

To contract for the maintenance and care of (persons, an institution, etc.) at a stipulated price

ExampleMeaning
Yeah a student exchange. They would come here for a week and we would come there for a week. So the principal of the school where I was teaching asked if anyone would be willing to look after this. So I said, "Sure, I'll do that." (Laughs) And then we had this group of students come in from Ashcroft and farmed them out with different people here and- and ah they- they went over to school for a day and then went to the McCassa-Mine for a day and you-know tried to look at the community and see what- what it's like.
To arrange for a child to be looked after.
ExampleMeaning
But they do it, but I don't think the do do it in many ways because I think when other people do it they have family that's close to them and they farm out a lot of their- their parenting things to maybe their grandparents or aunts and uncles and unfortunately we don't have that- that- that ah possibility.
To arrange for a child to be looked after.

fifty-fifty draw

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Well, keeping track, making sure that everybody's on the bus, that's about it. Yeah, and- then you have to entertain them, we've got bingos, and fifty-fifty draws, and- yeah. Interviewer: Oh, tell me about those. What's a fifty-fifty draw? Speaker: Well we have one fifty-fifty is ah, fift-- f-- f-- half of the money I pick up goes to the legion and another goes to the person. And then we have a draw for the bus driver.

Foible

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: But when you go with somebody else, they have all these other foibles that are strange. Interviewer: (Laughs) I know. We didn't know each other before we came on this trip. And there's four of us in one hotel room
A weakness in someone’s character

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
But when we were kids um, we'd come down here to the swimming pool and there was a- a fenced in pool, like a full size pool. And then outside of that you had a- a one foot, a two foot, and another three foot pool. It was quite a nice spo-- spot down here. And ah, it was all- i-- w-- there was never a charge. Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: For to go and swim there because it was all built- Interviewer: Splash park. Speaker: By the people of the community. Um, the men of the community, the miners, the husbands, fathers, whatever donated all their time to build a pool.
In order to

Four-wheel

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1848, OED Evaluation: N/A

A four-wheeled carriage.(noun)

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: What do you do there? Speaker: Ah fishing, four-wheeling, skidooing, boating, whatever- whatever you want to do out there, you can do.
Ride a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle.
ExampleMeaning
Fishing, horse-shoes, you-know, go four-wheeling. Blueberry picking, why not? I love blueberries.
Ride a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle.
ExampleMeaning
Oh I have a story. Ah, I was four-wheeling once and I got stuck in a mud.
Ride a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle.
Yeah, my friend Jillian-Will, she lives in Kenogami and we four-wheel together and we skidoo every winter together too.
Ride a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle.
She does like to four-wheel, but she doesn't like to go through the mud or-anything.
Ride a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle.
ExampleMeaning
Ah no, it was a- just a camp that ah when ah couple of years ah after we were married we built the camp up here so that we could come up and four-wheel and skidoo up here and ah yeah so no, it's just a little hu-- like a hunt camp or-whatever.
Ride a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle.
ExampleMeaning
The freedom to go out my back door and like go four-wheeling or we can go to the lake, you-know?
Ride a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle.