He sits in one end of the tilt and burns the other

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1964
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/73743

tilt n This. admirably expresses to their apprehension the folly of shiftless expedients. I once saw the literal fulfilment of this proverb. A poor thiftless family, too lazy to work, actually, while living in the forest, burned parts of one end of their house to warm themselves sitting at the other. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M. Story June 1964 Used I and Sup Used I 3 Used I tilts, tilt-back, tilt line, Tilt's distance, BAY TILT, linneys, smoke like a tilt, sit in one end of a tilt and burn the other sense 3 from DNE-cit, not Sup