To run out, decrease, or fade; gradually to come to an end or cease to exist.
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No, no. Ah, well ah Demise-Cheese-Factory just ah petered out, ah there used to be so many located but they had to be close at hand because there was no refrigeration, there was no motor vehicle transports, such as trucks and-that and there was an over- ah every farmer was into a mixed farming operation pretty well, with a few cattle and pigs and-so-on and-whatnot so they had to have a place in the summer to dispose of their surplus milk. |
Decrease gradually before coming to an end. |
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Speaker: So this went on for several years, eh? Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: So then ah things started to peter down here a little bit because the ah- the owners in Kirkland-Lake were supposed to stop in here once a week to ah answer questions that ah customers would like to- answered, eh? |
Decrease gradually before coming to an end. |
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Ah pe-- the- the silver down in ah Cobalt was petering out and peoper-- people wanted to find another silver mine. And they were- they went towards Elk-Lake and they were coming up here. |
Decrease gradually before coming to an end. |
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They take a royalty- the province takes a royalty off all the oil that comes out and then they're going to keep that and use that once things start to peter down to sort of build other industries and-that-sort-of-thing. If they had the foresight to have done that but years ago, who knows what this place would look like now or what towns. |
Decrease gradually before coming to an end. |
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Oh, they're up to fifty these Holstein bull calves, eh? F-- for veal. So now that notion's kind-of petering out, they're back down to three cows now. |
Decrease gradually before coming to an end. |
So he kind of petered out. And he- he's into construction now. But then (inc) hard times hit, you're glad to get any job. So this winter- this- early this spring, he was out of work, nothing to do so I phoned him up to see if he wanted to go clip sheep. |
Decrease gradually before coming to an end. |
That cannot carry on, eh? Takes a lot of area to pasture all that many to carry on. So then he petered out with that. Back down to twenty sheep. Same age as I am. He's done to twenty or twenty-five sheep. This winter, calves are cheap, eh? Holstein bull calves are cheap. |
Decrease gradually before coming to an end. |
Expressing rejection, cursory dismissal (of a proposition, idea, etc.), disagreement, or disapproval.
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So naturally that 's what you prefer. And um, so that 's when- Mr. and Mrs.-Price were pretty good stuff to take in a nineteen-year-old. But, but some dentist told her that, "You 're crazy to take in someone that age." So, so phooey to him. That 's all he needed to say to me, make me a good person. |
Expressing rejection |
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 |
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Interviewer: What do you fish for? Speaker: Pike, pickerel, bass. Mainly. Yeah. Yeah, fish Trout-Lake in the summer. Nipissing I only fish it in the winter 'cause it's too warm in the summer. You-know. 'Cause my buddy has a fish shack there that he built. Put four-thousand-dollars into it. It's all insulated, two beds, stove, furnace, we'd- we go out there and spend the whole weekend. Sleep in it, cook your meals right in it, there's four holes. |
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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But my neighbour goes out on his paddle- paddle-boat and fishes and sometimes I- I've done that and-stuff so that's fun. If you catch anything, you'll catch like bass or perch, pickerel- pickerel's a good one if you're gonna get that one but... |
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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It all depends on what you're- what you're using and different times of the year like ah pickerel, we usually fish them like beginning of the year and then later on in the year when it starts to cool off, during the summer months they are harder to catch. |
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 |
Speaker: Fishing and hunting? Um, well I fish for just about anything. We go for mostly, pickerel and ah bass. Fish lakes all around the- the biggest pickerel I've caught was about ah ten pounds. Interviewer: Is that big for a pickerel or not? Speaker: Yeah, it's not a bad size. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: It's ah not as big as the one I saw in the weekend there but (laughs)- Interviewer: That you didn't catch. Speaker: Yeah I didn't catch, somebody else caught it. But ah no it's ah- that's a nice size for a 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 |
We got out there Saturday morning, we went for ah- went and did a little bit of fishing at first so- my cousin Derrick, Lawrence put his boat in the water and we went fishing and ah we caught a few pike- ah no sorry, not pike, pic-- ah 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 |
Yeah there's good fishing there. Like I say, we've got pickerel in there, ten pounds ah we've always ah- it's pretty- pretty tough to fish in there too it's ah- if you don't know where to go it's ah- they don't bite during the summer time either... |
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 |
Speaker: We caught two pickerel and your mom finally caught some bass. Different from the pike. Interviewer: Good old her. Speaker: (Laughs). Interviewer: She's no longer the pike queen. |
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 |
That's the third Saturday of the month so um- that pickerel open on the long weekend of May. So it's ah- that's when you should- they'll bite good then and they've just done their spawning and they're looking for food. |
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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Interviewer: Okay. Do you ah- do you- do you fish in there? Speaker: Um, not a lot. But we do. Interviewer: What kind of fish do you have in the lake? Speaker) 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 |