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.
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At one time they were battalion- member of the battalion, but I- I was very happy because they treated me like a member. In fact I was out west in two-thousand-and-four see my brother who lives in High-River and ah I was also asked to give a toast at the- one of the dinners we had for the battalion out there, so I was very pleased to do that. |
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. |
A long, usually warm coat, esp. as worn by a man.
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I went up to the eight-o'clock service one morning, about a-quarter-to-eight and here was a chap coming down the aisle with an overcoat on. |
A long, usually warm coat, esp. as worn by a man. |
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... if they had a real cold morning, some students would come early and open the windows to add to the chilly atmosphere. (laughs) Then, when you arrived of-course, the windows would be closed but the rooms would be very cold. Oh, they couldn't stand that, they'd have- we'd have to close the school today. However, knowing what had happened, "it'll probably warm up later on," I'd say, "well get your overcoats on," |
A long, usually warm coat, esp. as worn by a man. |
In a private house: a sitting room; esp. the main family living room, or the room reserved for entertaining guests (now somewhat arch.). Formerly also: †any room or chamber; a bedroom (obs.).
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Lamps, china lamps for their parlours and things. |
A room in a house normally used to receive or entertain guests. |
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We had one of the old first addition of the Northumberland and Durham and my brother and I wore it out, lying on our stomachs on the parlour floor looking at pictures in there. |
A room in a house normally used to receive or entertain guests. |
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You'd wind it up and we'd dance to that right here in the parlour that I'm in. |
A room in a house normally used to receive or entertain guests. |
To run out, decrease, or fade; gradually to come to an end or cease to exist.
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Most of them really enjoyed the visits, and it did a lot for the parish. Then it began to peter out because the same people who were doing all the work they wanted relief and there weren't enough people to relieve them. |
Decrease gradually before coming to an end. |
Any of several (chiefly smaller) kinds of North American pike, as (more fully grass pickerel)
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Interviewer: What kind of fish? Speaker: Suckers and pike, pickerel. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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I can’t. Fishing, I have a fishing rod and I have a fishing licence and last year I caught four pickerel, and this year I’ve caught nothing. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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And ah we used to catch ah- that's where we used to catch our- our frogs to go ah fishing with and ah we did a lot o' fishing ah both ah mudcats and pickerel and bass and- and then we used to play with the turtles, and we never hurt the turtles but we had big snappers... |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
To potter about; to move or work in a desultory, ineffective, or dawdling way
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I love driving. I love driving. I can get in a car and drive forever. I could just- I just love it. Now, I love stopping and poking, but I- driving is- I don't mind driving at all, I just love it. I just kinda get in there and go. |
Move slowly |
Very small
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...on a- a normal Saturday we’d probably have ah ten, twelve kids out in the backyard. And it wasn’t a big backyard either it was just- when I think of it now it’s just kind-of a postage stamp backyard, maybe ah twenty-feet by twenty-feet and it was fenced-in but ah you-know for us it was like Maple-Leaf-Gardens. |
Small |
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The depression hit us and knocked us pretty near out of commission at one time. |
Almost |
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So you see on seven or eight hundred or a thousand boxes. Then the corrugated boxes didn’t take up near as much room in the car as the wooden boxes. They pretty near switched entirely to corrugated boxes for shipping because if you had, a car would hold about a thousand cases of these fillers in the corrugated boxes where as it would only hold eight hundred, seven or eight hundred wood cases. |
Almost |
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But I supposed they're all gone, all pretty near gone, you know. |
Almost |
I said I suppose that we're all gone, all pretty near gone, you-know. |
Almost |
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Many many items and a good big table, pretty near twice as big as that. |
Almost |
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The cows used to be let out pretty near every day to be watered to. |
Almost |
And it was pretty near as big as this room. |
Almost |
We knew that sooner or later compulsory pasteurization was coming in and out business got in the stage that it was pretty near impossible to carry on any longer out there from the farm, because it was...we was handling too much milk; we didn't have the facilities for handling it right and it was too much slavish work. |
Almost |