A boy, youth; a young man, young fellow. Also, in the diction of pastoral poetry, used to denote ‘a young shepherd’. In wider sense applied familiarly or endearingly (sometimes ironically) to a male person of any age, esp. in the form of address my lad
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Well you-know- you-know he was- he's- he's a bit of a cool lad you-know. Oh yeah but he was in the memorial-centre- he was coming to the memorial-centre, him and another girl and Roy was working for McCain's-Frozen-Foods at the time, so he said to the fella at the restaurant there he said, "You any idea what room Hank-Snow might be in tomorrow night?" |
Boy |
Yeah him and Ed-Gorman and um a couple more lads they hunt one- Roy's got a hundred-and-thirty-five acres in there and ah there's a fella from Toronto who's got three-hundred which give him permission to hunt it, and Ned-Walkins that's- he's got um maybe two-hundred acres. |
Boy |
Listen!
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...so when he come down the stairs ah we step- stepped right in him you-know, and he wasn't ah too you-know friendly and finally Roy said, "Look it." He said, "Hank Dad's been a friend of yours and a support", he said "for years and years." He said. |
Look |
a woman in charge of the domestic arrangements of a charitable institution.
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It was built in ah I’m only guessing but about nineteen-eleven, and my grandfather Bill put his- applied for the job and they called them matrons them days, like you’re the boss but you’re a matron. |
a woman in charge of the domestic arrangements of a charitable institution. |
A meeting-place, bar, nightclub, etc., frequented by prostitutes or by people in search of casual sexual partners. In later use also: a dance, party, or sphere of activity, regarded as a ready source of casual sexual contact.
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Speaker: By then li-- well we went to the bars a few times but it was kind-of um, how do I say this? Like a meat-market. Interviewer: Oh yeah? What's a meat-market? Speaker: Like a pick-up place, so I-mean if we were already going- if we were going-out with someone then it's not really a place that you'd prolly wanna go at the time, I guess. I-don't-know. |
Place to pick up men/women |
Year 1901
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He ah, he always wanted to move back to Warsaw, which was his home-town and the Washington family had been in Warsaw from ah, eighteen-thirty-one until nineteen-forty-one but in nineteen-one-one he moved to Lakefield and ah, ah people don't realize- we in our family realize what he gave up to do that- he was well liked, well respected and known and at that time he was forty years or age. |
1901 (year) |
A person's father; a woman's husband or male partner.
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Well that's one of them anyway. Um I- and another thing is too like a lo-- ah some kids now they call their parents the old man or- or a- a language like that you-know, "The old that" or- or -something-like-that I notice that like you-know you wouldn't say that about your dad or-something-like-that. |
A father |
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Well I was on the wag you-know for with helping with the selling things and you-know and the- the store sort-of-thing and of-course you take this thing around all afternoon you-know and then books |
Work that involves travelling, perhaps on a wagon. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
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But anyway it broke up and Roy came home then for a little while and then he went out west and he came back and he bought ah- he stayed here for a while and then he bought a house on the ninth-line ... |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
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... he just thinks that he should see Scotland. And- but we're- next summer we're going back out west for another wedding. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
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Speaker: Yeah some of my friends- it's interesting to notice how some people have it a lot thicker of a Canadian accent and others are a lot less so I'm always commenting, "Gee Joyce has a really thick Canadian accent." Or different people or meeting people from out west where I just couldn't believe how um different they sounded 'cause you could really pick up on it I-guess. Yeah. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
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I was friend with there for years and she was in my wedding and I was in hers and then she got married and went out west and so I didn't keep in touch often but would send a Christmas-card or phone and then once I phoned and her husband said, "Oh we're separated, she's moved." and then I lost touch with her too so- so yeah anyway. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
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Interviewer: It was east somewhere. Speaker: Yup. No out west, sorry. Me and directions. Um. Interviewer: (Laughs) I guess so. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
Well it's somewhere far away I was five I-don't-know. I don't remem-- I really don't remember much. It was out west sorry. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
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... but he was only there about six months and they decided send him out west, and they sent him to Edmonton. So Brenda and I flew out to see him, after he's out there for a while, and he didn't like it out there at all. So he landed home here ... |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
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Yeah um and because you can- it's called party hunting where you can um if you're hunting with somebody you can shoot too but it counts as one of the people that you're shooting w-- hunting with. |
Hunting in groups |
To run out, decrease, or fade; gradually to come to an end or cease to exist.
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No, no. Ah, well ah Demise-Cheese-Factory just ah petered out, ah there used to be so many located but they had to be close at hand because there was no refrigeration, there was no motor vehicle transports, such as trucks and-that and there was an over- ah every farmer was into a mixed farming operation pretty well, with a few cattle and pigs and-so-on and-whatnot so they had to have a place in the summer to dispose of their surplus milk. |
Decrease gradually before coming to an end. |
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Ah we would go to parties ah so people’s parents would go away for the weekend and then they’d throw a big party or there used to be, what- what they’re called around here, is a pit party, where it's an actual pit, and maybe it’s a gravel pit or-something and someone has a party there. |
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Ah we would go to parties ah so people's parents would go away for the weekend and then they'd throw a big party or there used to be, what- what they're called around here, is a pit party, where it's an actual pit, and maybe it's a gravel pit or-something and someone has a party there. Ah we would go rockin'-bowing, where they have it in Peterborough they turn down all the lights, and there was a disco ball ... |
Bonfire parties taking place at local gravel mining pits, for the most part held by teenagers and young adults at night in the wilderness. |
A contest which tests skill in ploughing, a competitive exhibition of ploughing.
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Ah I remember they had, when I first came to Lakefield, the United-Church, which I was going to at that time, ah they must have hosted the plowing-match and they- and we had to make ten pies every member, to put in on this. Oh, and me just married and oh having to make ten pies, anyway I think that's why I joined the Presbyterians. |
A contest which tests skill in ploughing, a competitive exhibition of ploughing. |