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To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett.

Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

Partnership; as to go in cahoot with a person. [Slang, southwestern U. S.] Bartlett.

ble iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc. [U. S.] Bartlett.

Cattle range, or Cattle run, an open space through which cattle may run or range. [U. S.] Bartlett. -- Cattle show, an exhibition of domestic animals with prizes for the encouragement of stock breeding; -- usually accompanied with the exhibition of other agricultural and domestic products and of implements.…

at formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec. Bartlett.

To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house. [U. S.] Bartlett.

Difficult to obtain; as, money is close. Bartlett.

e, the commissioner of Indian affairs, are subotdinates of the secretary of the interior. Bartlett. Commissioner of deeds, an officer having authority to take affidavits, depositions, acknowledgment of deeds, etc., for use in the State by which he is appointed. [U. S.] -- County commissioners, certain administrative of…

d authorities, the officers of government, collectively, as of a nation, city, town, etc. Bartlett.

Indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers. [U.S.] Bartlett.

nited States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything. Bartlett.

A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. Bartlett.

In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. [Colloq.] Forby. Bartlett.

A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

mbled at the house of some one, as of a clergyman, each one bringing some present. [U.S.] Bartlett.

One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett.

A house made partly in a hillside or slighter elevation. [Western U.S.] Bartlett.

violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc. [U.S.] Bartlett. Dumping car or cart, a railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; -- called also dump car, or dump cart.