The Newfoundland Tongue by Nellie P. Strowbridge

Author:Nellie P. Strowbridge [Strowbridge, Nellie P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS006000
Publisher: Flanker Press
Published: 2008-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

SHELTER TERMS

back tilt ∼ a shelter made of boughs.

bay tilt ∼ a sod structure (hut) built in the woods.

bough whiffen ∼ a temporary shelter with a roof and posts but no sides.

forepeak ∼ in a lumber camp, the foreman’s shack or office.

igloo (snow house) ∼ The dome-shaped Eskimo house was built from blocks of ice.

iglosoak (iglosuit) ∼ old northern sod houses, having seal-gut windows.

iglovigat ∼ a snow house.

jig house ∼ a place where sailors boarded. Sometimes they were robbed of their clothes. Flophouse.

lean-in ∼ cowshed.

lean-to ∼ a storage tilt with an open front and a back attached to the roof.

linny ∼ a temporary shelter made of boughs and moss and built against a tree or hill.

log tilt ∼ a temporary shelter built with logs and boughs.

mamateek ∼ an Indian home housing six to eight people. Bows, arrows, clothes, and other articles were arranged overhead.

meetchwops ∼ Indian dome-shaped shelter made from canvas and skins over a frame of bent willows.

pis aller ∼ a makeshift shelter.

quanset (quonset) ∼ huts.

rummage house ∼ small building used for firewood, goats, etc.

salt house ∼ place where salt is stored.

side camp ∼ woods shelter with a leaning roof and front opening.

snow hole ∼ Fires are often built on top of snow beside people in sleeping bags. As snow melts, sleepers and fire sink, creating a snow hole or chimney shelter.

sod house ∼ house with its skeletal frame sodded.

studden house ∼ house constructed with a wall of vertical logs instead of planks.

tilt back ∼ shed with a sloping roof.

tilt hovel ∼ sod winter structure with birch roof.

tilt line ∼ series of shelters built several miles apart for trappers who sometimes travelled seven miles a day. Food caches were set high above ground.

tupek (tuppek, tupik) ∼ Inuit skin tent.

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