An artificial reservoir for the storage of water; esp. a watertight tank in a high part of a building, whence the taps in various parts of it are supplied.
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Interviewer: And where would the soft water come from? Speaker: It would be in your cistern. |
An artificial reservoir for the storage of water; esp. a watertight tank in a high part of a building, whence the taps in various parts of it are supplied. |
Well, f-- from the roof, the y-- you'd have a- eaves-through around your house that would come in and you'd have a pipe end- end in your cistern. That's the way you- it was soft water was nice, nice to wash your hair. |
An artificial reservoir for the storage of water; esp. a watertight tank in a high part of a building, whence the taps in various parts of it are supplied. |
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Speaker: It got a fresh blast and then move out. I remember she always liked to get out there because the cistern was out in your- under the summer kit. Interviewer: Oh you had a cistern, now what was that? Describe what a cistern is. Speaker: Cement tank underneath- caught all the rain water. So you'd a hand pump and there- you know, for a wash water, dish water and all that. Interviewer: Soft water. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: Soft water. So that was great- summer that was one less pail you'd have to carry. Interviewer: So it just came off the downspout on the-? Speaker: Yeah. And then the eavestrough and it would all run into the end of the cistern |
An artificial reservoir for the storage of water; esp. a watertight tank in a high part of a building, whence the taps in various parts of it are supplied. |
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It came in on the phone lines and it blew the flipping phone completely off the wall and then w-- wet the ground under the old cistern pump. |
An artificial reservoir for the storage of water; esp. a watertight tank in a high part of a building, whence the taps in various parts of it are supplied. |
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Speaker: We had a pump in the yard which served the purposes in the house as well as, a cistern which is still there, down below the pantries and one year, ah, there hadn't been enough rain. I remember my father- husba-- oh, this was a little later, going to the river and bringing home water and putting it in the cistern and watering the- the stock from that, but that's a little later, yes. Interviewer: The water that would come into the cistern, where'd- where did it come from? Speaker: Yeah- ah, from the eavedrop-- eavedroppings around the house. Interviewer: Oh isn't that a smart idea? And how would you get it from the cistern into the- up to the- Speaker: From a little hand pump at that sink. |
An artificial reservoir for the storage of water; esp. a watertight tank in a high part of a building, whence the taps in various parts of it are supplied. |
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Speaker: And then there was the wood furnace in the main part and then in the back part was the cistern- 0 Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: To collect rainwater. |
An artificial reservoir for the storage of water; esp. a watertight tank in a high part of a building, whence the taps in various parts of it are supplied. |
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And then he said "No," he said "Can you start Monday?" I said "Yes." (laughs) He said "I want you to come in Monday." And that was the Civic-Ho-- after Civic-Holiday (laughs). And I stayed there- I was going to to go for about three years 'til we were able to start paying on a house or-something. I stayed for thirty-one (laughs). No thirty, I guess. I started in sixty-one and I quit in ninety-one. |
A public holiday celebrated in most of Canada on the first Monday of August. |
A number of persons claiming descent from a common ancestor, and associated together; a tribe.
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But going to the parents', we visited them regularly. Every Sunday you would visit, um, the whole clan. |
Large family |
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And, ah, she would walk in her old shoes and then she'd just hide them in the ditch and put on her clickety little shoes- |
Making a clicking sound. |
A room for the temporary storage of coats, bags, etc., esp. in a large public building, as a theatre, school, railway station, etc., typically near the entrance
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Those boys were- were after me. I ran into the bathroom, didn't get the door locked in time and they both g-- came in. Interviewer: Oh dear, what did you do? Speaker: I- I just screamed and yelled and clawed and- and finally the other kids- the younger kids were in the- in the cloakroom where the stove was and they- they yell-- they said "Here comes the teacher." (laughs) So they had to run out (laughs). |
A room for the temporary storage of coats, bags, etc., esp. in a large public building, as a theatre, school, railway station, etc., typically near the entrance |
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Interviewer: Did your school have electricity then? Speaker: Oh yeah, you had the- you had hydro but you had no running water, you-see and your toilet was just a- a big tank in the hole in the floor and the girls had one and the boys had the other. Then you co-- cloakroom for all your coats.But you d-- little- your- brought every morning you brought the pail and 'course the water would be getting cold out of the well. |
A room for the temporary storage of coats, bags, etc., esp. in a large public building, as a theatre, school, railway station, etc., typically near the entrance |
To cuff heavily
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Yeah, when it- she hits the stone, you got to be- of a good hold on it or it's going to clout you well on the side of the head. |
Heavy blow with the hand or hard object. |
Yeah, when it- she hits the stone (non-lexical sound: wouh), you got to be- of a good hold on it or it's going to clout you well on the side of the head. |
To cuff heavily. |
oil refined from petroleum, shale, etc.; kerosene; petroleum;
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Interviewer: Candle-light? Speaker: By ah- no, by coal-oil lanterns. |
A type of lantern |
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You had the coal oil lantern or a gas lantern. Did the chores with that and lit the house with the coal oil lamp. We got along fine. |
A type of lantern |
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So, Lori would sneak in, she'd watch 'til they were headed to the barn with the old coal oil lantern and then she'd sneak in and do the- help us with the dishes and then she'd say, "Don't tell your mother. Don't tell your mother." |
A type of lantern |
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But on the- on the- in the evenings, we would certainly go- the older ones would go to the barn and- and ah, help feed ah livestock and- and um, I can remember my dad milking the cows before we got hydro so there was a wire strung from one end of the barn to the other and he had a- just a coal-oil lantern that he would slide it on the wire behind the cows and- and then ah you-know, when he was milking or- and that must have been- I-mean our vet always s-- even after we got the electricity, our vet always said it was one of the darkest barns he ever come into. |
A type of lantern |
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Yeah, yeah. You had to take a coal-oil lantern out or- or-something-like-that and hang it up high because it wouldn't safe to set down on the floor in case something kicked it and- Because farms have been- barns have been burned that way, and you lose all your cattle, too. |
A type of lantern |
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Interviewer: So you didn't have electricity so I-guess you'd have to work with just ah kerosene? Speaker: Coal o-- coal oil lanterns we took to the barn yeah. |
A type of lantern |
A cooking-stove
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...and there's a small little area in this building. There was cement, there was a cook stove right there in this chicken coop. |
A stove |