Add to ORKGbunchGrain was cut in September.... Cutting with the sickle or reaphook was an extremely ardous task....Each "cut" or "bunch" was placed across a prepared straw band and three or four cuts formed a sheaf. Reaping required considerable skill; in the settlements north of St. John's it was asserted that "you must cut yourself three times before you are a reaper.PRINTED ITEM G.M. StoryJH JUL 1974Not usedNot usedWithdrawnWithdrawn but no stam
Artwork showing three men bundling wheat that has been cut by a horse-drawn reaper. This was probabl...
plough n'Now, to cut the ice [on the pond] we would use a plough. It was like a farmer's plough, o...
cutThis means hard, stale bread and, according to my grandfather, Mr. George Baker, of Burin, it do...
bunchingThroughout the nineteenth century grain was often harvested communally. Both men and women...
rip-hooks. . . the men cut the grass with long-handled scythes (sives). In smaller areas, they mig...
reap-hook. . . in the haying season all men who were able would be away fishing. Harvesting of the...
riphookEveryone cut grass by means of a scythe...In hart-to-get places a sickle or "riphook" was u...
stooksThroughout the nineteenth century grain was often harvested communally. Both men and women c...
cuttingConsiderable cooperative labor occurred also within and between sections in such affairs as...
make v. . . the men cut the grass with long-handeled scythes (sives). In smaller areas, they might...
Circa 1827 broadside of a “Reaping, Cutting and Gathering Machine” most likely of James Ten Eyck. B...
Cut is an onomatopoeic word -- its sharp sound suggests hidden sinister meanings. Cutpurses have dis...
seedAround the beginning of May, the men and women began "cutting the seed potato for 'to set'." T...
strippings n p_Dialect_ This word can be classed along with [inc], [inc], [inc] etc. in our checkl...
cut vIn fishing villages when young boys began to fish at a very early age some method had to be us...
Artwork showing three men bundling wheat that has been cut by a horse-drawn reaper. This was probabl...
plough n'Now, to cut the ice [on the pond] we would use a plough. It was like a farmer's plough, o...
cutThis means hard, stale bread and, according to my grandfather, Mr. George Baker, of Burin, it do...
bunchingThroughout the nineteenth century grain was often harvested communally. Both men and women...
rip-hooks. . . the men cut the grass with long-handled scythes (sives). In smaller areas, they mig...
reap-hook. . . in the haying season all men who were able would be away fishing. Harvesting of the...
riphookEveryone cut grass by means of a scythe...In hart-to-get places a sickle or "riphook" was u...
stooksThroughout the nineteenth century grain was often harvested communally. Both men and women c...
cuttingConsiderable cooperative labor occurred also within and between sections in such affairs as...
make v. . . the men cut the grass with long-handeled scythes (sives). In smaller areas, they might...
Circa 1827 broadside of a “Reaping, Cutting and Gathering Machine” most likely of James Ten Eyck. B...
Cut is an onomatopoeic word -- its sharp sound suggests hidden sinister meanings. Cutpurses have dis...
seedAround the beginning of May, the men and women began "cutting the seed potato for 'to set'." T...
strippings n p_Dialect_ This word can be classed along with [inc], [inc], [inc] etc. in our checkl...
cut vIn fishing villages when young boys began to fish at a very early age some method had to be us...
Artwork showing three men bundling wheat that has been cut by a horse-drawn reaper. This was probabl...
plough n'Now, to cut the ice [on the pond] we would use a plough. It was like a farmer's plough, o...
cutThis means hard, stale bread and, according to my grandfather, Mr. George Baker, of Burin, it do...