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Branch Come Home Year August 9-19, 2007 |
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Rail: horizontal part of a fence.
Red Rover: An axe
Ruckshins: a big commotion
Saucy: Smart mouthed
Scrawb: Tear with your nails
Scuff: fight or dancing
Scruff: Back of the neck
Scythe: Sickle for cutting hay.
Shanty: song that shouldn’t be sung in public.
Shavings: kindling for staring a fire
Shell: Shotgun shell
Show: To pass to someone, let them see Siwash: Mickey Campbell used this word all the time playing cards, “Get along ya siwash”.
Skim: to glide a flat rock on the water
Skimmer: a flat rock used to skim
Sleeveen: A sly person.
Slew: slant Slide: used for hauling wood in the winter on a horse.
Slick: outstanding, exceptionally good
Sling: Rope with a pocket used for throwing rocks.
Slinge: Play hooky from school
Slob: Newly frozen ice, the leftover rind part of sawed lumber
Snarl: Tangled up, mixed up.
Sounds: Meat off the underside of the back-bone of a cod fish.
Spark: A match or lighter
Spawl: piece of, splinter or chip off. (“Spawl off of the Devil”).
Spondooley: Money
Spree: a time where drinking is the main focus.
Spring Var: Green wood cut in the spring. Usually allowed to dry till the fall.
Sprong: a pitchfork used to clean the stable Spurt: a keen spurt, a short period of time Stake: Fence Post Step-in: Women’s underwear
Stile: Steps over a Fence.
Stitch: A pain
Streel: Untidy person
Stunned: opposite of smart, delirious.
Swell: large low waves, not cresting
Swig: to drink from a bottle
Tacklin’:gear for putting on a horse, belly band and reigns and stuff…
Tam: a hat
Taut: A board running across/separating pounds in a skiff. Can also mean tight as in “The Rope is taut”.
Tear: getting loaded, drunk time.
The Green: location of the Garden Party stalls.
Ticklace: young gull
Toutons and Rashers: Fried dough and fat pork
Trolley: Small homemade wooden toy, with two wheels for pushing or pulling. The more desired models were outfitted with a tea box for picking up beer bottles.
Tuck: a low clump of trees
Twenty-Four: 24 beer case.
Weddners: A newly married couple and their wedding party. Weights: A scale for weighing fish.
Well: Used instead of hello
Weskit: Short vest
Whist: Be quiet, hold your tonque
Winters Diet: Stocked food for the winter.
Vamp: Stocking sole or a home knit sock
Submissions By: Elaine McGrath, Carolann (Power) Lyver, Marina (Power) Gambin, Terry Power, Steve Nicks, Sheila Nash, John Corcoran, Raphael Roche, Don Nash, Rosella (Nash) Coffey |
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