The stretched skin or membrane forming the striking surface of a drum; the upper surface of a drum.
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Speaker: But that- that was the- the- the s-- drumhead service. Interviewer: I see. Speaker: And that was the m-- this- this is the same here (inc) piling the flags up in the (inc) and-that. Interviewer: Now why is it that they pile the drums up in there? Speaker: Well that- that's the drumhead service. Interviewer: Oh, I see, so they- Speaker: The- the- the service. The- the- the flags are put over them and the- well the drummers ah- th-- three side drums, a base drum and a tenor-drum. Right there, there and there. And then, that's what their- their pi-- pile there dealing them. |
The stretched skin or membrane forming the striking surface of a drum; the upper surface of a drum. |
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Speaker: The only damage we did was the- the "edgie wedgie" creates a little bump on the top- Interviewer: What do you mean? Speaker: So the "edgie wedgie" just a little, ah, piece of rubber that clamps down the tip of the skis, and so when they're learning they- it keeps their skis together. |
Piece of rubber |
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People now go to the tar sands or-whatever, you-know they go somewhere to work, this is the old of my grandfather's generation. They'd go to the west and work on the- tha-- the wheat harvest. They call it going on the excursion trains. They go out there and they'd work for the summer. And ah, so that's somewhere in the west, we don't know where. |
When individuals went out to the werst to harvest wheat |
To cut down (trees).
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Well with the wind blowing you-see when you go to fall a tree, the wind can whip it around and- |
To cut down (trees). |
Ah, ah fellow was falling- fell a tree in a lodged and then he fell another one to bring it back down and the (inc) come right back down. |
To cut down (trees). |
Before an inf., usually for to, (Sc. till), indicating the object of an action; = ‘in order (to)’.
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They come to Pinestone because they're- something else drew them there and they're staying there. But there's really not that much for to do around here. |
In order to |
A four-wheeled carriage.(noun)
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And we four wheel. We do four wheeling. |
Ride a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle. |
We do four-wheel though. We- we went out last year and we'd kind-of go up um- where'd- we go all over four-wheeling. |
Ride a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle. |
used as a coarse expletive.
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So what was happening is these- we'd waltz through and we'd load the shot, and then it might be a day or maybe half-a-day or-something and if it was a nice sunny day these frigging snakes would come out to sun themselves on top of the cut. |
used as a coarse expletive. |
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And the cookbook was- the five-rose cookbook that Mo gave me and the lost the frigging thing in my house, I'm not sure (laughs) where it is. |
used as a coarse expletive. |
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It was fun. In Toronto, it's like when you grow up here and everything closes at seven and there's one bar and you go to Toronto and like every night of the week there's music and every different- like there's all these different cultural neighbourhoods. It's just like frigging thrilling to be there and it's such a blur just like we sucked as much out of living there as we could and tried to experience everything. |
used as a coarse expletive. |
As noun: Diversion, amusement, sport; also, boisterous jocularity or gaiety, drollery. Also, a source or cause of amusement or pleasure.
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And the- the most funnest thing I do with my cousin in the water was last year. |
Superlative/comparative form of fun. |
In (by) golly = (by) God.
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Oh golly, yes, I can remember the old house was pretty cold upstairs. |
In (by) golly = (by) God. |
Oh golly, yeah. Just keep squeezing. |
In (by) golly = (by) God. |
Oh golly, yeah. That was something. |
In (by) golly = (by) God. |
Oh golly ah, it was nice, it was good. |
In (by) golly = (by) God. |
Oh golly, if it's not processed nice or (inc) but our field is broke up this year. |
In (by) golly = (by) God. |
Oh golly, would he ever. Yeah, them horses was his living. |
In (by) golly = (by) God. |
Oh golly, yeah you'd have to take it back and get some more. |
In (by) golly = (by) God. |
Oh he was a nice fellow, oh golly. |
In (by) golly = (by) God. |