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make1 verb To study for and become, train to be. [DARE labels this usage "especially South, South Midland" in the U.S.]

1939 Hall Coll (Cataloochee NC) Only one of his grandsons made a preacher, the Reverend B. B. Caldwell ... Naturally grandfather was kind of proud of him, that he made a preacher. 1953 Hall Coll (Bryson City NC) In his early married life he went into and made a preacher, Baptist preacher, and he followed that all the rest of his life. 1978 Montgomery White Pine Coll I-1 He was born and raised here, and he made a doctor, and he came back to White Pine. 1998 Dante OHP-24 He wasn’t a preacher at that time, but he made a preacher [later]. 2012 Jourdan Medicine Men 20 Because of my experience in the war, I wondered if there was any way I could ever make a doctor.

make2 verb To raise or produce (a crop, food), bring (a crop) to maturity. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland”]

1862 Shifflet Letters (July 13) the South cant stand hit much longer for tha[y] will all Starve to death Shore for tha[y] hante a maken nothing to eat. 1937 Hall Coll (Cosby Creek TN) We didn’t make any beans last year, hit was so dry. 1958 Wood Words from TN 13 A man who is farming, especially a renter, is said to be making a crop. 1999 GSMNPOHP-1:5 We'd just dig between the rocks. The ground was rich and you could make all kinds of vegetables.

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