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For to

Parf of speech: Preposition, OED Year: 1175, OED Evaluation: Now arch. or vulgar. Cf. French pour, German um zu.

Before an inf., usually for to, (Sc. till), indicating the object of an action; = ‘in order (to)’.

ExampleMeaning
And now they've got- they have to form some club, or have a bridge club or-something for to get the people together so that they can argue and fight over who's got the best hand instead of having a get-together like they used to have.
In order to

hand-to-mouth

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1748, OED Evaluation: N/A

Satisfying only one's immediate needs, esp. because of lack of money; involving or based on the immediate consumption or disposal of goods as soon as they are obtained, and unable to provide for the future.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: You had lost your husband I-think at that point. Speaker: Yes I had. Yes. Mm-hm. Yeah. That was when I was doing my own thing, yep. Interviewer 1: That must have been difficult. Speaker: Yes it was. Because you-know when we were at the Billiard farm, you never got great wages, or you just got hand-to-mouth sort-of-thing, to keep going. And ah, it was just when ah, I-guess it was when they started the um, what do you call the family allowance that they got every month?
Satisfying only one's immediate needs, esp. because of lack of money; involving or based on the immediate consumption or disposal of goods as soon as they are obtained, and unable to provide for the future.

harrow

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1377, OED Evaluation: N/A

To draw a harrow over; to break up, crush, or pulverize with a harrow.

ExampleMeaning
... through the summer, you went out there and that's what you did, you split wood. There was always something on the go. If you weren't cleaning out calf pens or harrowing or-whatever, you split wood and piled it up in a pile. Let it sun dry. And then the- the- he also came with an old cut-box. And nobody has them anymore, they've got forage harvesters and-all-the-rest-of-it.
To draw a harrow over; to break up, crush, or pulverize with a harrow.

harrow

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1350, OED Evaluation: N/A

A heavy frame of timber (or iron) set with iron teeth or tines, which is dragged over ploughed land to break clods, pulverize and stir the soil, root up weeds, or cover in the seed. Sometimes made in two halves, and then locally called the harrows.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer 1: Now you mentioned another word when you were talking about that. Harrow. Harrowing. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer 1: What's that? Speaker: Well it's not the same harrowing as what you get now. Because i-- you get harrowed now with the government (laughs) Interviewer 2: (laughs) Speaker: The- y-- y-- the harrows- Interviewer 2: Like harrow (inc) Speaker: Norma-- normally the- it was ah, i-- in a diamond shape. And they're like spikes. They'd be- if they weren't wore down they'd be about that long. Interviewer 1: Yeah. Speaker: So you had a- a grid of steel this way, and then this way. And in the corners of the diamonds was all the pegs for the harrows. And what your harrows did, if- and this i-- when they changed um- when they changed things around and w-- got rid of the horses, and got tractors, if you're driving through the country now you can see all kinds of steep old hills and where there was fence bottoms.
A heavy frame of timber (or iron) set with iron teeth or tines, which is dragged over ploughed land to break clods, pulverize and stir the soil, root up weeds, or cover in the seed.

harrow

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1377, OED Evaluation: N/A

To draw a harrow over; to break up, crush, or pulverize with a harrow.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer 1: Now you mentioned another word when you were talking about that. Harrow. Harrowing. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer 1: What's that? Speaker: Well it's not the same harrowing as what you get now. Because i-- you get harrowed now with the government (laughs) Interviewer 2: (laughs) Speaker: The- y-- y-- the harrows- Interviewer 2: Like harrow (inc) Speaker: Norma-- normally the- it was ah, i-- in a diamond shape. And they're like spikes. They'd be- if they weren't wore down they'd be about that long. Interviewer 1: Yeah. Speaker: So you had a- a grid of steel this way, and then this way. And in the corners of the diamonds was all the pegs for the harrows. And what your harrows did, if- and this i-- when they changed um- when they changed things around and w-- got rid of the horses, and got tractors, if you're driving through the country now you can see all kinds of steep old hills and where there was fence bottoms.
To draw a harrow over; to break up, crush, or pulverize with a harrow.
Speaker: ... plough it with the horses and when you out in the spring, as soon as you- they call it tickling-the-top-off with a hose- with a hose- Interviewer: Tickling-the-top-off? Speaker: And that- that (inc) up enough and it started to dry and- and you go out and harrowed a bit and it started to dry up and when it dried up a bit, then you take- and- and if you wanted to cultivate it well then, that dug in a little bit more but if you took your cultivator out first ...
To draw a harrow over; to break up, crush, or pulverize with a harrow.

hay fork

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: a fork and then you put the one piece on the top of it. And it'd shed the water, and then you go out and you loaded all that loose. There's all loose hay. Interviewer: Loose hay! Speaker: And bring it in and y-- and there was a- you use a hay fork. I've got a couple that I've bought ah, at home there now. And you put that into the thing and when you pull the lever on the side, there was two things that went that way.
An implement that is used to haul hay from the ground level to a hayloft or other high location
And I'd throw it down over the back and he'd holler down and it would just be like a- like that. And away we'd go down to his barn and- and he'd pull it off with the- with the hay-fork. And I got the job of working in the mow and it was a little old peak-roofed barn, hotter than hell. And you'd just pretty near melt. But anyways. Interviewer: What's the- what's a mow? Speaker: That's a- well the- in- the barns were- were built different.
An implement that is used to haul hay from the ground level to a hayloft or other high location

Hayfork

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1552, OED Evaluation: N/A

A long-handled fork used for turning over hay to dry, or in pitching and loading it

ExampleMeaning
Usually put two rows on a sling. And then you put another sling together. And when you got to the barn, there was ah- when you go ahead to pull it off, it was a little different but the same idea as the hay. But it was a hayfork that you just chucked into the hay, but this thing here had to start all on a sling...
Pitchfork

hydro - 2

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1916, OED Evaluation: N/A

Short for hydro-electric adj. (power, plant). Also attrib. In Canada also = hydro-electric power supply. Cf. hydropower n.

ExampleMeaning
Well I kind-of think the biggest change would be the hydro coming into effect. Doing things that- you could do something with the hydro. We didn't have hydro, I- it was quite a thing when it come.
Hydroelectric power.
You could get this in electric, and you could get something else, and- it- didn't have to have the old lamps that you had to clean up all the time (laughs). Just swi-- ... Put the switch on, and- (laughs) yeah. No, that was a great thing, that p-- hydro.
Hydroelectric power.

I says

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: And I knew exactly about how long it took them to do this. But this time they were a little bit slow. And I said to s-- b-- coming. And I said to the lady that was helping me, the girl, I says, "Go and tell them dinner is served." She s-- I said "Maybe they didn't hear you." So she went and told them again, "Dinner is served." And still they were slow coming.
"I say", "I said"
So anyways, she says "Oh that souffle was so nice Ailis." I says "It wasn't, it went down." And I was just about fit to be tied 'cause it- it was only the ones that I'd ever made that went down like that, but it was their fault, she said.
"I say", "I said"
So I was really mad. I never got mad at anybody, but that night I was mad. I says, "Another night like this, and I'll be going out that door." And I was just furious. So I didn't stay there very much longer (laughs).
"I say", "I said"
On a- I d-- ah, ah, when I got into the hospital I had to see this woman, and I says "You-know I was going to go to strawberry supper tom-- tomorrow night." And she says "Oh you'll be able to go."
"I say", "I said"
Speaker: They kept asking me "What's your name?" I said "Ailis-Boyle." And then another asked me "Ailis-Boyle." Interviewer: Eleven-twenty-five. Speaker: I says "Why- everybody call- ah, can't remember Ailis-Boyle, it's- I'll tell you my na-- who-- whole name. It's Ailis-Amelia-Gretchen-Boyle."
"I say", "I said"

lath

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1000, OED Evaluation: N/A

A thin narrow strip of wood used to form a groundwork upon which to fasten the slates or tiles of a roof or the plaster of a wall or ceiling, and in the construction of lattice or trellis work and Venetian blinds.

ExampleMeaning
And ah they sent me back down to Barryfield from Hamilton to um, finish the course and do the theory on the course. We did practical work up in Hamilton. Running lathes and milling-machines, and that-sort-of-thing. And ah, I really excelled at that. And I- I did good on the- on the tests and-everything. And after we finished the course they put us on a train at midnight and sent us to east.
A thin narrow strip of wood used to form a groundwork upon which to fasten the slates or tiles of a roof or the plaster of a wall or ceiling, and in the construction of lattice or trellis work and Venetian blinds.

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
It would go that way, or it'd go this way. And then when it got over the- it had a small rope on it, and when it got to where you wanted it in the mow, it'd eject a thing and down come ah, the hay, and then you went up and you mowed it all back by hand. And ah, I used to work a nineteen-thirty-three Chev truck.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
And away we'd go down to his barn and- and he'd pull it off with the- with the hay-fork. And I got the job of working in the mow and it was a little old peak-roofed barn, hotter than hell. And you'd just pretty near melt. But anyways.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
That's a- well the- in- the barns were- were built different. The one that we had at home was built in nineteen-thirty-six. It was hundred feet long and thirty-six feet wide. And there were two- there were two runways to it. One here and one here. That was the west mow there, there's a centre mow, and a east mow. And it was built ah, Teddy-Nichols built them out of three barns that was on the property originally. Built the new barn and they used all the timbers out of these old barns to build the new barn. It's still there. And he put new lumber on the front and the end. And the old lumber that was any good went on the west end where you couldn't see it. But the hay mow, or a grain mow like what we- when we were doing stuff and he used to bring ah, the- the grain in with sheaves. And there was slings.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.