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hydro - 2

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1916, OED Evaluation: N/A

Short for hydro-electric adj. (power, plant). Also attrib. In Canada also = hydro-electric power supply. Cf. hydropower n.

ExampleMeaning
Like, there 's a blackout. There 's no elec-- and this guy 's still pounding his music. No difference whatsoever." So I took joy in that. Just to- just to kind-of rattle them a bit. "That 's right, you-know. No hydro, shut down, Boom- Boom- Boom-Boom." Lights all flashing, you-know. So I kind-of took a perverse joy in that but ah, you-know, you can take away the hydro and I 'll still crank my music.
Hydroelectric power.
... there 's a gazillion jobs out there that are based on nothing when it comes to life. They 're based on something for business. They make you money, blah-blah-blah. But let 's hip-check our structure a little bit. Let 's knock out our government. Let 's take away hydro for a while. Let 's have an atom-bomb hit or something. Well, okay. Like I 'd say nine-tenths of people out there, what you know is useless, absolutely useless. If you have to now fend for yourself, what do you know? Nothing. Nothing.
Hydroelectric power.
I- I just- I hate computers. Use them as little as- as I can. Um, I work with food or even D- J-ing, you-know, I work with music. Take away hydro. Well, I can get some coconut shells or I can 'bong-bong-bong' (drum taps). You-know-what-I-mean? There 's still something there.
Hydroelectric power.
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She always used the dryer. ... I know what she was using a day in- she was using: about forty-three kilowatt-hours- kilowatts a day. In a- in hydro. Yeah, so I mean, rather high but not ignorantly high, because I got- because after the- okay?
Hydroelectric power.
Geez we better do something. You-know, we gotta do something in a hurry type-of-thing. We can 't let them freeze. I says, "Well, the hydro 's still on. You can- you-know, type-of-thing. Live on electricity for a while, type-of-thing until we- until we get this one." So sure- I- I race up there and I go, "Okay, where do I- now I 'm up here, where do I buy a furnace?"
Hydroelectric power.
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... I'm the oldest, and so we got to go to my grandfather's cottage- ... Up in Muskoka, up by Huntsville. Now it didn't have any hydro and it didn't have any running water, but it was a real cottage and that- so that was in the thirties that we went up there. And uh we never had power.
Hydroelectric power.
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He works here in Belleville. He lives in Marlbank. His dream was to have a log cabin and no hydro and-blah-blah-blah and live in the woods.
Hydroelectric power.
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But one- school- and you had no lamp eh or to do your homework, eh, I don't know how a person ever say for- (inc) not very long ago when hydro went out we had the lamps out- up and you could hardly see so we don't know how we ever did homework by- by a lamp.
Hydroelectric power.
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When I was a kid back in nineteen-fifty-four- now we're going a long way back, Hurricane-Hazel hit and ah that did tremendous amount of damage around here. ... Um the hydro was out for I-don't-know, three or four days, I guess it was. Um trees down all over the place. Um, trying to think what else happened. There was a lot of water then. There was a few floods-
Hydroelectric power.
And we have to come home and couple times there she says "um, wha-- we gonna get there pretty soon?" I said "oh yeah pretty soon." Then we get up here I say "well, you-know, I've gotta re-- gotta remind you we got no running water, no hydro we're so far back in the bush." You-know just to tease her eh but she likes it here 'cause it's nice and quiet.
Hydroelectric power.
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Interviewer: What would hap-- like did you ever have a curfew or? Speaker: No we didn't, well of course nobody went out at night in- in those days because there were no streetlights. There was no hydro, no nothing. You were in the dark. Until they got streetlights in Coboconk and- and then they got them here too.
Hydroelectric power.
... and my other brother worked oh what- he used to do ah- wiring, you-know like- if say you wanted your house wired, if you were getting the hydro he- that was his job. That's the work he worked at. And that's all of us.
Hydroelectric power.
... I knew nothing about building. Ah- and-but Charles and as he said he didn't either, but he- he- first thing he done he got ah two books to told you- first of all there was building, carpentering work and then there was hydro and then there was ah plumbing. And any th-- all these you see it was there in front of you, so that he could do a-- any of the things that we wanted done- he done- he done it himself.
Hydroelectric power.
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... ah- the ah post-depression years. Thirty, and ah- ah not a lot of ah- extra money to go around or benefits. We didn't have running water we didn't have hydro ah we had ah coal-oil lamps and wood stoves and ah my poor mother ah had the hand-washing of ah- of ah all our laundry and clothes. Ah- six children in eight years and ah she deserves a medal ...
Hydroelectric power.
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... a study between the two plants to see which one was going to stay open. And ah, they take into account, I would imagine, everything from location to- to wages to benefits, to you-know they U-S Canadian dollar, to ah availability of ah everything. From ah, land, hydro, ex-- you-know taxes, so in the end, ah we were lucky. We were fortunate we won out. And ah the- the plant in Greenville closed down.
Hydroelectric power.
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And ah- and as soon we got the transformer up and the hydro gives up power, we hooked it because you don't want a transformer sitting idle.
Hydroelectric power.
But when my older kids, when my older cousin went to school they had a tough time because they didn't speak (laughs)- speak English at all- I mean you-know a little bit, not much. ... 'Cause there's no radio. The farm (inc) there's no hydro.
Hydroelectric power.
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... if things don't work out, I'm hoping that, like, ah like with ah like a forester or something. ... Like in- in that line, like a- like a- a hydro, or at the da-- like at a power dam. All- like O-P-G, like, they all have lines. That'd be my best bet.
Hydroelectric power.
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But the club was ideal because there was not- nobody around. It was all family and ah there's no hydro or anything out there but ah it's still good. We had ah- we had a corn roast and-
Hydroelectric power.
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'Cause nowadays you need more money than ever. ... Like I could go on and on about that, like I-mean this house, when I bought this house, I paid sixty-dollars a month hydro. I pay almost two-hundred now.
Hydroelectric power.