A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
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So w-- in the centre mow, we had the- we had the grain. And over here in the- in the east mow we had all the loose hay. And when it come to thrashing, the thrashing mill sat over here. |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
To remove surface soil or other waste material
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...the original roads were made through the swamps and-one-thing-another with ah, slush scrapers behind the horses and they m-- mucked it out and then they laid timbers down. They call it corduroy road and then they covered over with gravel. |
removing waste |
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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The-Family-Herald, it was a magazine that come in the mailbox from out west it seemed, somewheres. ... But it had everything in it. It had ah, recipes and quilting and news and all-kinds-of-things. And we used to get that all the time. That was the one paper I always l-- looked forward to. |
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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My father used to go to a sale and buy a woodlot. And I remember one time he bought a- a lot and- and ah, my older brother, when he came home- my oldest brother w-- went out west when they- they had that sign, "Go west, young man, go west." ... And the- the newspapers used to say, "Go west, young man, go west." |
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. |
Speaker: Bo's family are all- Interviewer: Some of them are out west. Speaker: All out west. Mm-hm. |
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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And you could pretty near eat everything that they grew on it. |
Almost |
And the main stop-offs- there's ah, one was- they'd come from ah, Lakefield to Peterborough- that's pretty near a day's run. |
Almost |
And I'd build it so there was pretty-near eight feet over top of the cab. |
Almost |
And I got the job of working in the mow and it was a little old peak-roofed barn, hotter than hell. And you'd just pretty near melt. But anyways. |
Almost |
in a satisfactory way; to a considerable extent, largely.
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Speaker: Yeah I was p-- pretty well finished and- ... Interviewer: Then when you came out? |
pretty much |
Interviewer: How many hours or days would it take? Speaker: Well- y-- they could ah, when we have a group of three on each side, you could pretty well get- if you started in good time, you could get over quite a bit of it in a day, and if another day would come, we'd have to go another day ... |
pretty much |
| Example | Meaning |
And ah, my dad used to let us off work to go to the strawberry festivals. During the day- during the afternoon. But ah he kept us working pretty well all the time. |
pretty much |
| Example | Meaning |
Interviewer: Do you remember people still using horses? Speaker: Yes. We had horses- ... On the farm. And the horses ah, pretty well went out in nineteen-fifty-four. |
pretty much |
(Under bee) In allusion to the social character of the insect (originally in U.S.): A meeting of neighbours to unite their labours for the benefit of one of their number; e.g. as is done still in some parts, when the farmers unite to get in each other's harvests in succession; usually preceded by a word defining the purpose of the meeting, as apple-bee, husking-bee, quilting-bee, raising-bee, etc. Hence, with extended sense: A gathering or meeting for some object; esp. spelling-bee, a party assembled to compete in the spelling of words.
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Speaker: No I-guess I didn't quilt this one. ... Interviewer: Somebody else quilted it? Interviewer 2: Yeah. She did all the embroidery and put it together. Speaker: And y-- you had to ha-- we had a quilting-bee on it. |
Communal quilting session. |
Interviewer: What- how did the quilting-bee work? Speaker: Well when we had quilting-bees, there used to be about three on each side. Like- and they t-- then they'd roll, and then go along, and roll another row, and then another row, until we come to the middle, and then i-- it was finished. |
Communal quilting session. |
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish
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But all the Scotch people- all the- like- I remember w-- we heard one time that years ago all the Irishmen were all Scotch. |
Of or belonging to Scotland or its inhabitants; Scottish |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants.
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Interviewer 2: And he'd be doing what? Speaker: He- he- he'd be standing up at the- at the barn. And the- the bull was running here. And the- they'd be throwing the sheaves off. And- and ah, Felix would be standing there chewing a straw. And you'd think he was asleep. But he was listening to every move of that mill. Interviewer 1: That piston. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
Speaker: And the old thing'd go (makes tractor noises). And when Casey would try to get him going by feeding the mill too fast, and throw- he'd throw two or three sheaves on, and then he'd throw one on crossways. And it was a Goodeson- the Goodeson-Thrashing-Mill was the best mill of the bunch. There was Dyerone thrashers and there was all kinds of thrashers, and this one here was a- a Goodeson. And the reason they were so good- there was a- there was a big drum with spikes on it like that. Ahead of- (clears throat) ahead of the concaves. So when the sheaves went in, it was split and went through the shaker and through the concaves, and it- you got the maximum amount out of it. Well this guy here, he'd overfeed it. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
And you- you'd have the old corn binder. And you cut the corn and put it into sheaves. Went out and loaded them, you had people come to help with that. Bring that in, put it in this cut-box, and it was run with a- he had a fifteen-thirty international. And blow it up into the silo. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
But the hay mow, or a grain mow like what we- when we were doing stuff and he used to bring ah, the- the grain in with sheaves. And there was slings. Interviewer: Slings? Speaker: And you put a- yeah, you put a sling- the sling was a two-part thing. And it went together with a- with a- a bit in the middle. And you hooked it over the end-gates on the wagon. One there and one here. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |