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brose

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1657, OED Evaluation: N/A

A dish made by pouring boiling water (or milk) on oatmeal (or oat-cake) seasoned with salt and butter.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Mm-hm. Um, that cornmeal, you never ate it in the morning? Speaker: No, Interviewer: In any kind of ah- a pudding or-anything? Speaker: No. I never ah- I never bothered with it in the morning. There was pea-brose, made out of peas. Interviewer: Pea which? Speaker: Pea-brose. Interviewer: Pea-brose. Speaker: Yeah. The- they roast the peas and grind them. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: And it's very nice. You want a nice cream or-something to put on it.
A dish made by pouring boiling water (or milk) on a powder made from roasted, ground-up peas.

Buffalo or Buffalo-robe

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1804, OED Evaluation: N/A

a cloak or rug made of the skin of the American bison dressed with the hair on.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Oh, I see, mm-hm. Um, did- say you were out in a cutter, what you use to put over you, to keep warm? Speaker: Oh, well, it'd be a buffalo robe. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Some people had buffalo ro-- they'd sit on them, they'd put one on the back of the cutter, on the seat, and sit on it, and then they'd have another over their knees. That was- that would be more or less for style.
a cloak or rug made of the skin of the American bison dressed with the hair on.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: You said you had a- a buggy, and, ah, your father had a buggy, to- Speaker: Oh yes. Interviewer: Yeah? What did you use in wintertime? Speaker: A cutter. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What was it like? Speaker: There's a big round- oh, fancy made, it'd stand about that high though, and the runners come to around like this, and way back, and this thing come back nearly to your breast, see? You didn't need a buffalo on or nothing in front of you to keep the snow off, nor a- Interviewer: Didn't need a what? Speaker: You didn't need a buffalo on or nothing, unless for heat, to keep the snow on or- and the rain off. The f-- made all with the wood, and the runners can ride back, oh, just almost in your face.
a cloak or rug made of the skin of the American bison dressed with the hair on.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: In a um- in a cutter, how did you keep warm? Speaker: Oh, we had buffalo robes, we had a pair. And ah, them heavy blankets, you-know?
a cloak or rug made of the skin of the American bison dressed with the hair on.
Interviewer: Retains the heat, apparently, for quite a long time. Yes. Ah, where would you get the buffalo robes? Speaker: We bought them at a sale, but I think originally they came from the West, eh? At that time, it's way back, and ah, these people had been farming, and they had two buffalo robes, one was smaller than the other, the other had a- an addition, like- as if the- the neck of it had been- had been, um, used too, it was a big loop, on one of them. Made it much bigger. And the hair was much longer, like on it. Interviewer: Would they be lined, or have a backing? Speaker: Yes, they were lined with some woollen material. I think one of them had just like grey- ah, grey wool, um, well, material, I mean, and then the other one was more fancier somehow. But it- both of them were lined with woollen material.
a cloak or rug made of the skin of the American bison dressed with the hair on.

bush lot

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: ... did much oak grow in this area? Speaker: Not very much, because ah I remember as children we wanted oak nuts and this thing- and ah no, there wasn't any- much- but of course you-see our farm didn't have a bush lot. Interview: Too many trees. Speaker: So we didn't have much experience, it was just wonderful for us to go through a bush with anybody or- like that, you-know?
A small, wooded lot, especially a farm lot with trees left standing to provide firewood, fence posts, etc.

Byre

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 800, OED Evaluation: Old-English

A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.

ExampleMeaning
At my dad's was all round, and- well we built- the building part was built the cow-byre after my- after my time. I was about eleven year old when they built the building, like built the inside of the building. You-know the cow-byre?
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
Speaker: At my dad's was all round, and- well we built- the building part was built the cow-byre after my- after my time. I was about eleven year old when they built the building, like built the inside of the building. You-know the cow-byre? Interviewer: Ah what's that ah- Speaker: Where you put the cows in? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Like you-know? Ah, we always called it the cow-byre.
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: We, ah- they called it- the Scotch people called it cow-byre. (laughs) Interviewer: Is that what you called it? Speaker: Cow-byre. Interviewer: You called it that, did you? Speaker Oh, yeah. Interviewer: Yeah. You said you had another building for the calves though. Speaker: Yes. Interviewer: What did they call that? Speaker: Well, the calf-house. (laughs) Interviewer: The calf-house, not the byre? Speaker: No.
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Byres and (laughs) you-know. Interviewer: Oh yeah. For the cows, what did you have for the cows? Speaker: Chickens were held with byres. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: You know what a byre is? (inc) Interviewer: What would that be like? Ah, like an ordinary barn? Speaker: Well, it was onto the barn. You see it was a- Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Just like a great big shed. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: And then off that a byre connected with (inc) to retain your cows in you see. About twelve or thirteen cows in there. Retain them with an egg. Interviewer: Now was it part of the big barn then, or-? Speaker: It was right under it. Interviewer: Underneath the barn? Speaker: Yes. Interviewer: And that was the byre underneath? Speaker: Yes.
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
Speaker: Milked them in the byre. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer: Did you have a, ah- a building there where you kept the milk? Speaker: Ah, let me see. I think in those days we- we separated our milk. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: With a separator. And sent our cream to the creamery. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer: Where would you do the separating? Speaker: Oh, I think we done- in the barn cooler. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Near the byre, you-know.
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
They knew where- where they stood in the byre rank.
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
Speaker: They get- they get to know you a little in a decent byre, though. Many is the time I worked with, a people milked out in the byre- out of the byre and then out at the barnyard we called it. And these- (inc) is still there. Nice clean place. Interviewer: Mm-hm. So we were going through the buildings weren't we? You've got your- the barn that has the cow byre with it. Speaker: Yes. Interviewer: What other little buildings for animals did you have? Or for- did you have a- a s-- separate building for storing the grain? Or did you- Speaker: Oh yes, for the granary. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Oh yes for the granaries- they were right beside the byre. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: By the byre.
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: That's- (laughs) the upper part is the barn, and the upper part is the cow- is the cow-byre. Interviewer: The- the lower part's- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: The cow-b-- Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. The cow-byre, yeah. Interviewer: The cow-byre. Was the- was the cow-byre sometimes separate from the barn? Speaker: Oh yes. That's the proper way to have it too. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What was it made out of? Speaker: Hm? Interviewer: How do- how do you build one of those? Speaker: You just build it up high enough for- about six feet. And then put the roof over. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What- from what? Speaker: Hm? Interviewer: What- what- what'd you make the roof of? Speaker: I (inc) you could ever seem to have to build it with. They could put rafters up, and put a G-roof on like this, do-you-see, or they could put on a- a more flatter one and so on. Interviewer: And that- and that's called a cow-byre? Speaker: Eh? Interviewer: That's called a call- cow-byre? Speaker: Right
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
ExampleMeaning
Stable, cow byre.
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
ExampleMeaning
That would be the cow byre. Cow byre, that's what they called it. Now they- they don't call it that now you-know. They call it the- well it's just the barn. But it used to be the cow byre.
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
ExampleMeaning
And uh, and the cows, they'd be in the cow-byre and the horses would have the horse-stable-
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.

Chivaree

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1735, OED Evaluation: Alternate spelling of French 'charivari'. Can also be spelled 'shivaree' (primarily U.S., Cornwall).

A serenade of ‘rough music’, with kettles, pans, tea-trays, and the like, used in France, in mockery and derision of incongruous or unpopular marriages, and of unpopular persons generally; hence a confused, discordant medley of sounds; a babel of noise.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: But, uh, they used to have these parties, you-know, with friends. And uh, that was the way most weddings were conducted, I-think. Interviewer: Did they have chivarees? You-know where- Speaker: No. No, there was n-- I know what you mean, but th-- I never heard- heard of anybody having it. They did that in the early days, though, really. And many people were hurt, you-know, by it, too. Interviewer: How? Speaker: Oh, I-mean the not expecting, you-know, they- but we never had any at ours. Thank the Lord.
Custom of a group of family and friends surprising a bride and groom on their wedding night. The group goes in the middle of the night to wherever the newlyweds are spending their wedding night, and creates a loud disturbance, possibly banging on pots and pans, using other noisemaking devices to startle them, with the intention of disrupting any wedding night activities. A type of minor hazing, intended for fun and humour.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: They never had what they call a chivaree? Speaker: Yes! B-- but all that's- was done away as of years ago. It was the last one that we had here was over across the road here. And up to two or three years ago there was an old m-- milk can in the ditch down there they'd use that night for a drum to make noise. That was about the last big one around here. Interviewer: Uh-huh. What- and what did they call that net? Speaker: It was just the chivaree. Interviewer: Chivaree. Speaker: Ah sometimes when a man be geting married the second time or-something-of-that-nature. Interviewer: What- what was the purpose of that? Speaker: Oh I- Interviewer: Just to have fun? Speaker: Couldn't see there was much purpose to it (laughs). Interviewer: (Laughs) But what- I-mean what did you use to do with the milk cart? Speaker: Oh, make all the noise we could. Interviewer: Go up to the house and the- Speaker: Go up to the house and- sometimes the man would come out and give them a bit of money and they'd go into some hotel or a stopping place or-something. Interviewer: What- you mean to- for- for drinks? Speaker: Yeah (laughs). (clears throat) At that time there was hotels every place. You didn't have to s-- go very far to get them. Interviewer: So they called- they called those little groups, ah- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Ah ah what was it? A ch-- Speaker: The- ah it- just was the- was that the chivaree. Interviewer: Chivaree. That ah- wonder why they stopped doing that? I think it's- Speaker: Oh, well I don't know. Interviewer: Out of fashion? Speaker: I- yes. Oh it was kind-of foolish anyway (laughs). Interviewer: Sounds like fun. Speaker: (laughs) Yeah, well it was fun alright, but- sometimes it didn't end up too funny either. Depends on the kind of a man you were celebrating (laughs).
Custom of a group of family and friends surprising a bride and groom on their wedding night. The group goes in the middle of the night to wherever the newlyweds are spending their wedding night, and creates a loud disturbance, possibly banging on pots and pans, using other noisemaking devices to startle them, with the intention of disrupting any wedding night activities. A type of minor hazing, intended for fun and humour.

cistern

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1382, OED Evaluation: N/A

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.

ExampleMeaning
And ah the stove. The rest was (inc). And there was a cistern in the house.
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.