A fund-raising social event at which boxed meals are sold or auctioned, customarily to be shared by the purchaser with the person who prepared the meal.
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Speaker: And they had box-socials. Interviewer: Yeah, and what was the kind of socials? Box- Speaker: Box-socials. Interviewer: Oh yes, I hear of the box-socials. |
A fund-raising social event at which boxed meals are sold or auctioned, customarily to be shared by the purchaser with the person who prepared the meal. |
One of a pair of straps of leather or webbing used to support the trousers; a suspender.
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And they- pants on and hard to get people to wear braces to hold their pantses up to their crotch, 'cause of their- crotch was at their knees, they couldn't walk, you-know-what-I-mean? |
One of a pair of straps of leather or webbing used to support the trousers; a suspender. |
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And my dad did what you call custom hatching of eggs for all kinds of other farmers because they didn't want to be bothered with the time or didn't have the building and the facilities with a brooder stove and the whole kit-and-caboodle, so- |
A device used to maintain a constant temperature in a room for the purpose of rearing chicks. |
a cloak or rug made of the skin of the American bison dressed with the hair on.
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Speaker: 'Cause I remember going to church with a horse and cutter and the buffalo were all going to- heated brick at our feet. |
a cloak or rug made of the skin of the American bison dressed with the hair on. |
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And my dad he used to take the horses and sleigh then and he had a big buffalo robe and we'd ah- he'd have that laid over a foot of straw or so on the- on the sleigh, so we'd get under the buffalo robe and it was a nice ride to school, it was nice and warm you-know? |
a cloak or rug made of the skin of the American bison dressed with the hair on. |
Something unpleasant or undesirable; a great nuisance
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Because they had the, ah, old Clarke engine that was a bugger to start |
Something unpleasant or undesirable; a great nuisance |
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
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So they sort of chummed a bit together. |
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone). |
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I know that Keith-Blaine I know him real well, I o-- I chummed with his wife. |
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone). |
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 we didn't have- we h-- we had this cistern, we built a big cement tank affair in the basement and we ran the water off the roof into this cistern and that we used for our first bathroom, and bathtub, and laundry and-so-on. |
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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The basement in the house, of course, was never heat- heated and, ah, because there was a cistern there it kept a certain amount of dampness there. |
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. |
A number of persons claiming descent from a common ancestor, and associated together; a tribe.
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Interviewer: And the Quintons came out from Ireland and settled around Stanleyville, didn't they? Or is that another branch of the family? Speaker: I don't know anything about that clan. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: I know Bella-Tovan's bunch. |
A number of persons claiming descent from a common ancestor, and associated together; a tribe. |
Interviewer: My ah, my family's- are the Goodmans. Speaker: Oh, you're the Goodman clan! I was-Interviewer: Going back to the old census' from- and- one of them has- holy cow. Speaker: And they're mixed up with everybody too. |
A number of persons claiming descent from a common ancestor, and associated together; a tribe. |
Interviewer: And there's two Farringtons, you're saying, over off the Scotch line? Speaker: Yes there is, they're two different clans. Interviewer: They're- oh, they are two clans? Speaker: And our clan is gone. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Our clan is all gone, now you've got Abbington's clan. |
A number of persons claiming descent from a common ancestor, and associated together; a tribe. |
Interviewer: Well, we now- I know I'm a Goodman, way back until about ah fifteen-hundreds. Speaker: Oh, is that right. Oh God. Interviewer: I-don't-know. But (laughs) Speaker: Well our clan, like with Dad, ah, we- we kind of assumed that's how close we've got or as- as close as we got, that we assume who his father and- or grandfather and grandmother were. But we're still slugging away, you-know? |
A number of persons claiming descent from a common ancestor, and associated together; a tribe. |
oil refined from petroleum, shale, etc.; kerosene; petroleum;
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N-- Dad- the only thing Dad ever talked about reading a book- he says you always had to read it with a coal-oil lantern, he said, "That's probably why- |
A type of lantern |
A measure of cut wood, esp. that used for fuel (prob. so called because originally measured with a cord): a pile of wood, most frequently 8 feet long, 4 feet broad, and 4 feet high, but varying in different localities.
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And then it all turned around we- we- too much machinery to work with but nobody would- nobody there to run the machinery. So it just switched ah, it's like cutting wood at the bush ah now like you-know ah I have- oh, I'll usually do twenty-five cords of wood. Now that would be- that would be a quite an undertaking a few years ago because you had to ah cut that wood all up into lengths, like usually made them about twelve feet long. |
A measure of cut wood, esp. that used for fuel (prob. so called because originally measured with a cord): a pile of wood, most frequently 8 feet long, 4 feet broad, and 4 feet high, but varying in different localities. |
A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections.
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peaker: It was just a lark. But we didn't have T-V. Interviewer: Of course not. Speaker: Everybody had a radio and that's- but we had all sorts of board games, like Crokinole and Checkers and Snakes-and-Ladders. And of course there was always the whole standby of cards. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: They would be and then as little girls, we all played with dolls and our tea-sets. |
A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections. |
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons.
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And she used to take the horse-and-cutter down. |
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons. |
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And that's wagon. It's up in the shed and that cutter is up there. Interviewer: That cutter is beautiful. |
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons. |
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'Cause I remember going to church with a horse and cutter and the buffalo were all going to- heated brick at our feet. |
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons. |