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train 1 n . . . a big boy, if there was one, piled a load [of fire wood]on a train. He then draged it to the church and and packed it in the required place at the back. The "train" is a long sleigh locally built and was used mostly for country travel hitched to two dogs. . . . The "tr...
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ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/72969 2023-12-31T10:19:28+01:00 train, a 1973/06/xx image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/72969 eng eng T Edward Cokes, 69-6Ms/029 & 277 Head Bay d'Espoir p. 277- References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 14968 T_14968_train 1 n http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/72969 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 1973 ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:37Z train 1 n . . . a big boy, if there was one, piled a load [of fire wood]on a train. He then draged it to the church and and packed it in the required place at the back. The "train" is a long sleigh locally built and was used mostly for country travel hitched to two dogs. . . . The "train" is a wooden sleigh strongly built and with "iron shoes" (steel bands) along the bottom of the runners. An average size train was about seven feet long, six or seven inches high and about two feet wide. (see other side for illus.] [reverse] Before the boards are [image] put on Holes <--- for tying <--- [image] the dogs to. DNE-cit JH JUN 1973 JH JUN 1973 Used I Used I and Sup Used I [see also 'geared-in'] Reverse at T_14969. Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
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train 1 n . . . a big boy, if there was one, piled a load [of fire wood]on a train. He then draged it to the church and and packed it in the required place at the back. The "train" is a long sleigh locally built and was used mostly for country travel hitched to two dogs. . . . The "train" is a wooden sleigh strongly built and with "iron shoes" (steel bands) along the bottom of the runners. An average size train was about seven feet long, six or seven inches high and about two feet wide. (see other side for illus.] [reverse] Before the boards are [image] put on Holes <--- for tying <--- [image] the dogs to. DNE-cit JH JUN 1973 JH JUN 1973 Used I Used I and Sup Used I [see also 'geared-in'] Reverse at T_14969. |
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T Edward Cokes, 69-6Ms/029 & 277 Head Bay d'Espoir p. 277- References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 14968 T_14968_train 1 n http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/72969 |
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