crowd

crowd n Some Newfoundland planters and agents provide boarded huts for their "crowd," . Each"crew" has a fish stage, alongside which the fish are brought in the boats. These stages are built out on piles driven into the mud. Long poles, known as "rounders," are laid sid...

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Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Published: 1970
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Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/16884
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Summary:crowd n Some Newfoundland planters and agents provide boarded huts for their "crowd," . Each"crew" has a fish stage, alongside which the fish are brought in the boats. These stages are built out on piles driven into the mud. Long poles, known as "rounders," are laid side by side across the tops of these, and form a kind of flooring. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit W. J. KIRWIN SEP 1970 JH SEP 1970 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Used I CREW, crowd of hands, HAND Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Tue 28 Jun 2016