boar's back
boar n A horse and cart was used to haul the hay from the field. . . ./ The thing to guard against was making the load "lop-sided" - it would surely tip over at the "sidling" places or on the rough spo[-]r[-]ts. . . ./ Another thing to guard against was making the load too rounde...
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| Language: | English |
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1973
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| Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/7754 |
| Summary: | boar n A horse and cart was used to haul the hay from the field. . . ./ The thing to guard against was making the load "lop-sided" - it would surely tip over at the "sidling" places or on the rough spo[-]r[-]ts. . . ./ Another thing to guard against was making the load too rounded before it was built high enough. This was ->called "boar's back" and the bane of the builder's life. It was the height of all insult to be told that you had built your load like a boar's back. DNE-cit JH 10/73 Used I Used I Used I Source appears in DNE I as M 71-39 |
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