Grout

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/32131

grout [Dead stumps of trees used as firewood. They were torn up rather than cut. The term is used less frequently today as "grout" is no longer used, but was popular up to about ten years ago in N.D. Bay. Perhaps very few families had need of this term, as "grout" was more or less a quick means of fuel when one's supply of regular wood ran out. Most people had large woodpiles and if the husband was returning from cutting wood, or just happened to see a likely stump that had "a lot of burning in it" he'd carry it home as a soucre of qyick intense heat. Of course, some people preferred to have a winter's supply always at hand. I doubt that many young people of my age (19) ever heard the term. However, I was out- doors-minded, and often accompanied my father or brothers when they went cutting. I've often heard my mother say while berry- picking or such: "There's a lovely peice of grout."] DNE-cit Written up by informant, Grcae Woolfrey, aged 19, of Moreton's Harbour. Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 2 Not used This card is stamped with DNE-cit but it isn't cited in the DNE.