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ˈsiwash, v. N. Amer.
[f. prec.]
1. intr. To camp without a tent, like an Indian.
1938T. C. Stanwell-Fletcher Driftwood Valley (1946) v. 94 Since we can't carry the additional weight of a tent, we'll have to siwash under trees. 1977New Yorker 20 June 64/3 In discrete valleys were a few cabins, and they stayed in them or siwashed (camped on the trail).
2. trans. To bar (a person) from purchasing alcoholic drink. colloq.
1948C. W. Holliday Valley of Youth 144 It [sc. Painkiller] was in great demand by the old inebriates during the periods when they had been ‘Siwashed’—which meant that it was illegal to serve them with a drink over the bar or sell them liquor. 1957A. R. Barratt Coronets & Buckskins 9 Wen a wite man gets so's no one will sell him drinks—well folks say e's been siwashed.
So (sense 1) ˈsiwashing vbl. n.
1904Churchman 21 May 626, I have a lame shoulder, the result of continuous ‘siwashing’ and sleeping in the snow. 1938T. C. Stanwell-Fletcher Driftwood Valley (1946) vi. 110 The day after our siwashing trip, we lounged about the cabin, luxuriating in a paradise of warmth and rest. 1962M. E. Murie Two in Far North ii. ix. 194 South Fork Henry no doubt thought we were young fools to be looking forward to a night of siwashing. |