"Buddy, grab your berry box, we're going up on the barrens after the bakeapples and havin a bit of a boil up. By rights we should have headed up there an hour ago."
"Hold your horses would ya. I'm beat out, I was over to mudder's hauling stuff around, and she only give me a bare-legged cup of tea."
"Come on b'y!"
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Bakeapple -A yellow orange cluster berry similar in appearance to the raspberry. Found in marshes and bogs. Also called the cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, salmonberry, creeping raspberry or yellow gold. (pictured above)
Bare-legged cup of tea - a cup of tea served without food offered.
Barrens - a plateau with low vegetation where berries often grow.
Bayman - someone who lives outside St. John's. (me, but not my husband)
Beat out - to be tired and out of breath.
Berry box - a wooden box used to transport berries from the berry hills.
Boil up - a meal in the woods.
Buddy - referring to a person whose name is unknown or not easily recalled.
B'y {pronounced; BY} - any male person regardless of age.
By rights - strictly speaking.
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