DCHP-3

Siwash fashion

B.C. and Northwest
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1

after the manner of Indians.

Quotations

1923
Promenade around in a single file/And the lady in the lead in the Siwash style.
1957
And so, even in a foreign land a foreign intruder had had his head smashed in the Siwash fashion.
1957
"How would you like to do your courting Siwash style?"
2 — Lumbering, Slang

run (a cable, line, etc.) around anything but a proper block.

Quotations

1938
We pried and he heaved with the tow rope round what you couldn't by the wildest stretch of imagination call the boulder's waist, windlassed Siwash fashion around a neighbouring fir.