Utensils

F1 What do you call a heavy metal pan that’s used to fry foods?

F2 What do you call the light metal pan for frying? [Asked in early Questionnaires only]

F3 When you’re frying things—for example, eggs—you turn them over with a ________.

F4 What do you call the deep metal container used to boil foods?

F5 What is used around here to stir a large pot, to prevent lumping or sticking? [Asked in early Questionnaires only]

F6 The kitchen utensil with holes punched through the sides and bottom, to drain off liquid from foods:

F7 The kitchen utensil with wire mesh, used to separate the fine part of food from the coarse:

F8 The kitchen utensil that you pass flour through:

F9 To get a liquid through a narrow opening—for example, the neck of a bottle—you’d pour it through a ________.

F10 If you are familiar with wood-burning stoves—what do you call the round flat pieces that you take out to put in the wood?

F11 The thing you use to remove the lids (or other word) from a wood-burning stove when it is hot:

F12 The flat metal piece below a wood-burning stove, to catch the ashes:

F13 Talking about different kinds of containers—a small wooden container that nails come in: [Asked in early Questionnaires only]

F14 A large wooden container for vinegar or cider: [Asked in early Questionnaires only]

F15 What you turn to let the vinegar or cider run out of a barrel:

F16 The container apples come in: [Asked in early Questionnaires only]

F17 What peaches come in—different kinds:

F18 The container grapes come in: [Asked in early Questionnaires only]

F19 A cloth container for grain:

F20 A cloth container for feed:

F21 A cloth or paper container that you buy flour in:

F22a A smaller paper container for bringing groceries home from the store:

F22b A smaller paper container for carrying a lunch: “He had his lunch in a ________.”

F23 A container made of rough, loosely-woven, brown cloth; commonly used for potatoes, etc:

F24 The container for kitchen parings and scraps—inside the kitchen:

F25 The container for kitchen parings and scraps—out of doors:

F26 The place where dishes are washed: [Asked in early Questionnaires only]

F27a What you turn on and off inside the house to get running water:

F27b What you turn on and off outside the house to get running water:

F28 The utensil with a small cup on a long handle, used to take water or milk out of a pail:

F29 Different kinds of irons—not electric—used around here for smoothing clothes after they’re washed: (Differences?)

F30 What is a pail made of? What is it used for?

F31 What is a bucket made of? What is it used for?

F32 Talking about a sudden flood in the cellar, you might say, “A water pipe must have ________.”

F33 A small tool that you hold in one hand, with ‘jaws’ for gripping things: (Show picture.)

F34 The wooden cross-pieces that you put your feet on when you go up a ladder: (Not a stepladder)

F35 A small broom that you hold in one hand, and use it in places that are hard to get at: (Show picture.)

F36 Other kinds of brooms that people use around here:

F37 Names for an indoor toilet:

F37b Joking names for an indoor toilet: [Asked in early Questionnaires only]

F38 Utensil kept under the bed for use at night:

F39 A large pocket knife with blades that fold in and out:

F40a What do you put into a bottle to close it—if it’s made of cork? [Asked in early Questionnaires only]

F40b What do you put in a bottle to close it—if it’s made of glass? [Asked in early Questionnaires only]

F41 A girl or woman who comes in to do general work around the house: [Asked in early Questionnaires only]

F42 A woman who washes clothes for other people:

F43 After clothes have been washed, what do you do to get the soap off?

F44 What do you call a container for coal to use in a stove?

F45 What do you call the fuel that’s used in an ordinary lamp?

F46 What do you call the kind of matches you can strike anywhere? [Not asked in early Questionnaires; not included in all of the later Questionnaires]

F47 What do you call the wire or rubber device with a handle, that is used to kill flies? [Not asked in early Questionnaires; not included in all of the later Questionnaires]

F48 What do you call pages of writing paper glued together at the top with a cardboard back? [Not asked in early Questionnaires; not included in all of the later Questionnaires]

F49 What do you call this? (Show rubber band.) [Not asked in early Questionnaires; not included in all of the later Questionnaires]

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