sawing on the halves
half These gentlemen didn't take the 'hard cash' from the fishermen for sawing their logs. . The owners had a scheme called 'sawing on the halves'. Under this scheme they got half the lumber they sawed.if a fisherman got 1000 board feet of lumber sawed, the sawmill owner got...
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ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/33715 2023-12-31T10:19:21+01:00 sawing on the halves image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/33715 eng eng H 69-5Ms/016 Williamsport, WB, Warrick Canning References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 13080 H_13080_half http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/33715 Department of Folklore Original held in the Department of Folklore. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador Text Manuscript ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:21Z half These gentlemen didn't take the 'hard cash' from the fishermen for sawing their logs. . The owners had a scheme called 'sawing on the halves'. Under this scheme they got half the lumber they sawed.if a fisherman got 1000 board feet of lumber sawed, the sawmill owner got 500 board feet and the fisherman got 500 board feet. In the spring the sawmill operators sold their surplus lumber to some firm outside. JH JUN 1973 Used I and Sup Used I Used I Cp OED ~ n 7 f on the halves, DAE now dial. In the DNE, the source is listed as M 69-5 Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
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half These gentlemen didn't take the 'hard cash' from the fishermen for sawing their logs. . The owners had a scheme called 'sawing on the halves'. Under this scheme they got half the lumber they sawed.if a fisherman got 1000 board feet of lumber sawed, the sawmill owner got 500 board feet and the fisherman got 500 board feet. In the spring the sawmill operators sold their surplus lumber to some firm outside. JH JUN 1973 Used I and Sup Used I Used I Cp OED ~ n 7 f on the halves, DAE now dial. In the DNE, the source is listed as M 69-5 |
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