rolling vbl n / rolling song

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
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rolling ppl, vbl n [After milling, the cloth] was smoothed out on the table, then rolled onto a board about six inches wide to the accompaniment of 'rolling songs' . . to the accompaniment of "rolling songs": That's a song that we generally use when we'd be through milling the cloth, we'd roll it up, and we would be slapping the cloth. It's rolled up, you know, and stretched out, and rolled up, and we used the song to slap it right down. . . .And then they had to sing a couple of songs after it was rolled, beating it down on this board. And then you'd put it out in the sun to dry, you see, the next day; and then it was fit for the old people to cut out clothes, whether it was a coat, or a vest, or pants.[S]9[S] The rolling songs (sometimes referred to as"clapping songs"in the Outer Hebrides and "putting up songs" in Cape Breton) were also of the chorus/verse/chorus pattern, but were sung at quicker tempo than the milling songs. These were also accompanied by laughter and lightheartedness, reflecting not only the theme of the songs but the pleasure of finishing the work and the anticipation of the night of merry-making that would follow. DNE Sup PRINTED ITEM Maybe obvious. Milling in OED. Note: this is the only candidate of Nfld lg. in the Halpert book. MAR 2 1989 WK G. M. Story Used I and Sup Used Sup Used I only the first three lines of the quote appear in the dictionary.