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feed Captain James Fairweather of the AURORA was asked to inspect the damage. He took his water glass, and by its means saw that a bit of the fore-foot had gone, but told the commander not to worry, as there was plenty of wood behind it, and he advised him to give her a "feed". . [HE] told...
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ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/26548 2023-12-31T10:02:02+01:00 feed 1971/01/xx image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/26548 eng eng F 1937 LUBBOCK Arctic Whalers 415-416 References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 16235 F_16235_feed http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/26548 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 1971 ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:21Z feed Captain James Fairweather of the AURORA was asked to inspect the damage. He took his water glass, and by its means saw that a bit of the fore-foot had gone, but told the commander not to worry, as there was plenty of wood behind it, and he advised him to give her a "feed". . [HE] told them to have some hemp rope-yarn chopped up and put into a tub. The tub was then fixed on a pole with a slip cover over it and sunk until it was over the damaged part. When the cover was pulled off, the suction drew the rope-yarn into the wound and stopped the leak to a very great extent. It is probable that this was one of the last times that this trick/was tried, but it used to be common enoguh in the old days of wodd sailing ships, when working caused them to open their seams where, possibly, the oakum had perished. [1884] PRINTED ITEM G.M. Story JAN 1971 JH JAN 1971 Used I Used I Withdrawn withdrawn but no stamp; head word and word form used I but not in same sense Manuscript Arctic Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
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feed Captain James Fairweather of the AURORA was asked to inspect the damage. He took his water glass, and by its means saw that a bit of the fore-foot had gone, but told the commander not to worry, as there was plenty of wood behind it, and he advised him to give her a "feed". . [HE] told them to have some hemp rope-yarn chopped up and put into a tub. The tub was then fixed on a pole with a slip cover over it and sunk until it was over the damaged part. When the cover was pulled off, the suction drew the rope-yarn into the wound and stopped the leak to a very great extent. It is probable that this was one of the last times that this trick/was tried, but it used to be common enoguh in the old days of wodd sailing ships, when working caused them to open their seams where, possibly, the oakum had perished. [1884] PRINTED ITEM G.M. Story JAN 1971 JH JAN 1971 Used I Used I Withdrawn withdrawn but no stamp; head word and word form used I but not in same sense |
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