spruce

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1975
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/52657

spruce n The Spruce Tree is the most prevalent wood of this Country . It answers for a great many purposes; of it, they have no Domestic article but what the Spruce has some concern. The following is a list of the principal uses to which This Tree is applicable in Newfoundland: Yeast, to raise Bread with / Essence of Spruce, the common drink here / Building Houses / Bark to cover their Houses with / Firing / Building Fish Flakes / Preserve the Sails of their Vessels / Oars, for their Boats / Masts and Yards for Ships / Cattle browse on its tender Branches / Making Pudings with PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit DNE-cit G.M.Story 11/75 JH 11/75 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Used I spruce-beer, spruce-bird, spruce-game, spruce-partridge, spruce-tea, spruce bud, spruce longer, ~paddle/pole/top/bark/bread/yeast/mope,Spruce fir, black, scrub, white, red spruce. The card is stamped twice.