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cross av To cross pile. Usually refers to piling sticks of wood, usually firewood -- one layer say east-west, the other north-south, keeping edges as square as possible. This is supposed to allow the air to circulate. The term is also applied to fish piled mainly in a square or rectangular fashion a...
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ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/16233 2023-12-31T10:19:31+01:00 cross pile v xxxx/xx/xx image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/16233 eng eng C W Wareham Apr 78 Hr Buffett References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 16375 C_16375_cross av http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/16233 Department of Folklore Original held in the Department of Folklore. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador Text Manuscript ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:38Z cross av To cross pile. Usually refers to piling sticks of wood, usually firewood -- one layer say east-west, the other north-south, keeping edges as square as possible. This is supposed to allow the air to circulate. The term is also applied to fish piled mainly in a square or rectangular fashion and usually referred to as a "bulk." A bulk is usually about 8 ft by 5 ft. Unlike sticks of wood above where one layer is in one direction and the next layer is in the opposite direction, a bulk might have a couple (or even more) layers in one direction and the next couple or so layers in the opposite direction. Cross piling in this way is supposed to bind the fish and keep the bulk from falling over. Used I Used I Used I cross-hackel, cross 'ackle, cross-heckle, cross-hackling, cross pile v Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Tue 28 Jun 2016 Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
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cross av To cross pile. Usually refers to piling sticks of wood, usually firewood -- one layer say east-west, the other north-south, keeping edges as square as possible. This is supposed to allow the air to circulate. The term is also applied to fish piled mainly in a square or rectangular fashion and usually referred to as a "bulk." A bulk is usually about 8 ft by 5 ft. Unlike sticks of wood above where one layer is in one direction and the next layer is in the opposite direction, a bulk might have a couple (or even more) layers in one direction and the next couple or so layers in the opposite direction. Cross piling in this way is supposed to bind the fish and keep the bulk from falling over. Used I Used I Used I cross-hackel, cross 'ackle, cross-heckle, cross-hackling, cross pile v Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Tue 28 Jun 2016 |
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C W Wareham Apr 78 Hr Buffett References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 16375 C_16375_cross av http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/16233 |
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