DCHP-1 Online
Siwash fashion B.C. and Northwest 
1 after the manner of Indians.
- 1923 Promenade around in a single file/And the lady in the lead in the Siwash style.
- 1957 "How would you like to do your courting Siwash style?"
- 1957 And so, even in a foreign land a foreign intruder had had his head smashed in the Siwash fashion.
2 Lumbering, Slang run (a cable, line, etc.) around anything but a proper block.
See also: siwash ((v.))
- 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.
- 1923 Promenade around in a single file/And the lady in the lead in the Siwash style.