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From: "Pauline Ballentine" <>
Subject: Re: [DMU] Have you seen this term in your deeds?
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 18:31:38 -0700
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Well, my husband says there's a "sawbuck" used for sawing logs!

pauline

----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Vines Little" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: [DMU] Have you seen this term in your deeds?


> Checked OED and did not find anything.
>
> B
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Broyles <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 5:40 PM
> Subject: [DMU] Have you seen this term in your deeds?
>
>
> > You never know what you'll come across in a deed!
> >
> > We got a query today from a fellow do research in Massachusetts
(timeframe
> > not given). One of the property corners was given as a "buckstraddle"
and
> > he's
> > trying to figure out what it is. I discovered that straddling a deer is
> one
> > of the
> > steps of dressing it (straddling the body as you make a long slice along
> the
> > belly). Straddle is also used to describe the distance between the
right
> > and
> > left hoof prints of a deer (or presumably other animals).
> >
> > In any case, if you have an OED or Dictionary of American Slang, you
might
> > find
> > the answer buried inside.
> >
> > Steve Broyles
> >
> >
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