We had a good visit with Tracey and Donald on Thanksgiving.   Donald has lived his whole life in the Clinton County north country of NY, and I learned a couple new terms.   The tree I know as 'ironwood' in our area, American Hophornbeam, (Ostrya virginiana), he knows as 'hardack'.   He was touting its value as a very hard firewood, well capable of holding the woodstove fire overnight.   And if  you weren't careful in the way you burned it, it could burn too hot and 'twist' the stove.  That was the second new term, by which he meant it could warp the iron.  May have to add both to my vocabulary.