Draft
draft or _draught_, in old English and still in the Provinces, means a team of horses or oxen, and also that drawn by them, a load. As the Newfoundlanders generally had no teams, they have come to use it to denote a load for two men to carry, hence two quintals of codfish. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M.S...
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| Language: | English |
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1959
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| Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/21665 |
| Summary: | draft or _draught_, in old English and still in the Provinces, means a team of horses or oxen, and also that drawn by them, a load. As the Newfoundlanders generally had no teams, they have come to use it to denote a load for two men to carry, hence two quintals of codfish. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M.Story July 1959 Used I Used I 1 Used I [see 'draught'] draught, draft bar(row), BARROW1, FISH BARROW Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Tue 26 Jul 2016 |
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