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The word fodder is not used to denote cattle feed in general, but is 
limited to oats cut green to be used for that purpose. This use of the 
word I am informed is found in New England. So the words funnel 
and funnelling are used in Newfoundland and also in some parts of 
the United States for stove pipe. It is common in both to hear such 
expressions as that “ the funnels are wrong” or “he bought so many 
feet of funnelling.” This sense of the word has gone out of use else- 
where, except as regards a steamer’s funnel. 
Hatchet is used for an axe. This is a little singular as the word was 
not originally English, but is the French hachette, the diminutive of 
hache, and really meaning a small axe or hatchet. 
Idle is used to mean wicked, expressing the full force of Watts lines 
that ‘Satan find some mischief still, for idle hands to do.” 
A Newfoundlander cannot pass you a higher compliment than to say 
you are a knowledgable man. The word, however, I understand is 
common in Ireland, and I suppose was brought here by the Irish settlers. 
Lodge is used in an active transitive sense, as equivalent to place or 
put, as “I lodged the buok on the shelf,” ‘‘ She lodged the dish in the 
closet.” 
Lolly. This word is used by Newfoundlanders, as by the people on 
the northern coast of America, and by Arctic explorers, to denote ice 
broken up into small pieces. They have, however, another use of 
the word, so far as I know, peculiar to themselves, that is, to express 
a calm. In this respect it seems related to the word dull. Indeed, 
Judge Bennett thinks that it should be written Judly. 
Lot, the same as allot, to forecast some future event. Wright and 
Halliwell give it as Westmoreland for imagine, and the Standard 
Dictionary represents it as used in the United States as meaning to 
count upon, to pleasantly anticipate. The word low, which I deem a 
contraction of allow, is used in virtually the same sense. ‘I /ow the 
wind will Le to the eastward before morning.” The word allow is used 
in some parts of Nova Scotia as meaning intention or opinion. “I al/ow 
to go to town to-morrow.” The Standard Jictionary represents it as 
colloquially used in this sense in the United States, particularly in the 
Southern States. 
Main is used as an adverb, meaning very, exceedingly. A New- 
foundlander will say, ‘I am main sorry,” that is, exceedingly sorry. 
