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Mind of

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1300, OED Evaluation: now only in Scotland

That which is remembered, a memory; the memory or record of (a person or thing)

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: You had to learn to ride when you were young? Speaker: Oh no, we never got time to ride. We just worked (laughs). Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: I mind- (laugh) I mind of being out west in forty-two.
Remember
Ed-Drake and father took two different loads to Ottawa to the market. Fifty-two gallons or-something at a time. Loaded the old (inc) down pretty- pretty good. And I mind of them saying that they were Jews- Jewish people was in the market and ah store keeping and-that-stuff in Ottawa at that time.
Remember
Interviewer: So how big was the Maberly-Fair in your lives when you were growing up? Speaker: How healthy? Interviewer: How big was it. And how big a part of your lives was it? Speaker: About same as it is today. Maberly-Fair's has been a highlight in Maberly for a good while. I don't mind of when it ever failed.
Remember
Interviewer: W-- when you were young- did- did- we- we've talked about going to Perth, but did you go to Lanark at all very much or- Speaker: Oh yeah, a- a lot of time. Interviewer: Or Sharbot-Lake? Speaker: Not so much. Never had that much to do with Sharbot-Lake, I don't know why. I don't mind of it anyway.
Remember

mow

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1643, OED Evaluation: Now chiefly regional.

A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker 2: On the wagon. Speaker: It would lift you right peak of the barn. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: And then you'd go sideways and then you would trip it- Speaker 3: (inc) Speaker: It would drop down into the mow. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: So we used to periodically decide to go for the ride. We hang on to that, keep our head down, you go up and go and then drop down with it.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
ExampleMeaning
Well, I know when- when that- when the thration (ration) was over, there always was- like, where the wagon would come into the barn, and th-- and a mow on each side, but- the- the barns were so full, that they had to- the- put the straw in there, in that space, and then the boys'd climb up and on- on the beams and-everything, and jump down into the straw. Which was kind of dangerous.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.

Much else

Parf of speech: Expression, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

N/A

ExampleMeaning
But I don't have much else stories about the f-- I know we had a blacksmith shop.
Many more.

Neck of the Woods

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1637, OED Evaluation: origin U.S.

A narrow stretch of wood, pasture, ice, etc. Now usually in neck of the woods: a settlement in wooded country, or a small or remotely situated community; (hence more generally) a district, neighbourhood, or region. in this neck of the woods: in this vicinity, around here (also used elliptically). Formerly also †neck of timber.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Della-Kildare. Ah, where does she live? Della-Kildare. Interviewer: Ah, I'm not sure. I'm not the one going to- and Joe be- I'm not the one who's going to be interviewing her. Speaker: Oh, you're not in the- she's the Maberly bunch anyway, I can tell you that. Interviewer: Yeah, she- okay, yes, the Tessler's up there, Joe Bookman--, and- Speaker: Tessler in Maberly- or- up- up in that neck of the woods, anyway.
General area
Speaker: Hadrian-Wall. That's it. In that neck of the woods was like a hole-in-the-wall, and they'd go over to England or Scotland, and steal, and then they'd run back- Interviewer: To the other side. Speaker: To this hole in the wall! It was just an- ah- a narrow area between Scotland and England.
General area

never had no

Parf of speech: Phrase, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

N/A

ExampleMeaning
De-- Dean- Dean and I are- we should've bought all that problem year- never had no money to-- couldn't do it. Anyway. Dean was up there.
"never had any"

out West

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1834, OED Evaluation: N/A

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.

ExampleMeaning
I worked- I worked for a guy out west one time (laughs). There was a lady down the road, she used to always listen in. So one day, (inc) says "Look, Morgan, why don't you just greet yourself and slide off the line for a while."
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.
ExampleMeaning
And this guy who was a career soldier, but he was a graduate engineer out of Toronto-University and, ah- and he really never practiced his profession. He was a customs agent- ... Out west. And that's his wife and this is his, ah, son.
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.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: You had to learn to ride when you were young? Speaker 2: Oh no, we never got time to ride. We just worked (laughs). ... Speaker: I mind- (laugh) I mind of being out west in forty-two.
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.
ExampleMeaning
... we never did get too fancy, my father came, he had a farm or whatever they call it out west for a number of years, he and mother were out there for a while, then they came back to live with her ah- her aunt, and ah-
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.
Interviewer: Well, t-- t-- tell m-- you both grew up on farms? Speaker: Well yeah just a small farm, cause it obviously was out west, the farm, right and then he came back 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.
ExampleMeaning
... I guess they called him a drover at the time. And he spent a lot of time- he went out west to sell cattle and-so-on. And ah (inc) ran the farm. A- a son of his ran the farm.
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.
ExampleMeaning
And he would work there in the winter and then he'd come home to the farm and help his father in the summer. And then he would go on the harvest excursion in the fall out west. ... But anyhow, he said in the mining camps, these salvation ladies would come in and it was rough but he said those girls were ladies.
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.
That was the first, ah- well, the f-- first Aboriginal person I saw, I was going out west on the train. I don't know- it wasn't going out to the Haidas but, ah, just going 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.
Interviewer: So you have the two sons. ... Speaker: And Bryce was away for a long time. He was out west and worked in Calgary and then he, ah, did ice for a while. ... And, ah, he was a great curler, he was all over-
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.

Outfit

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1787, OED Evaluation: NA

Originally: the articles and equipment required for an expedition, etc. Later: equipment of any kind, esp. a number of items designed or selected to be used together, equipment.

ExampleMeaning
Them days it was on four wheels. Big outfit on four wheels. Now they can move them 'round with no problem at all but they have to have a good team of horses to handle them.
A machine.