framer-gives

Updated: June 7, 2025

All being ready, the framer-gives the word "attention," when each man lays hold of the bent, one man being stationed at the foot of each post with a hand-spike, which he presses against it to prevent its slipping. "Yeo heave!" is then shouted by the framer, at which every man lifts, waiting always for the word, and lifting together.

Samuel Strickland - Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West: The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I)