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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ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/21665 2023-12-31T10:19:08+01:00 Draft 1959/07/xx image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/21665 eng eng D 1896 PATTERSON Dialect of Nfld 28 References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 14483 D_14483_draft http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/21665 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 1959 ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:41Z 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 Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
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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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D 1896 PATTERSON Dialect of Nfld 28 References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 14483 D_14483_draft http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/21665 |
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