flippers n

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/26614

flipper n meanwhile, by winds and tides. The mothers have great difficulty in inducing the young to swim, and for the first month the pups are helpless. After that they enter the water, and their white fur changes to brown. Just before this they are in their prime, between March 15 and 30, and it is then that the sealmen are keenest after them. The mothers will fight desperately in defense of their young, and so will the dog hood, which is ex- tremely fierce, not hesitating to give battle to two or three men, so that he has to be shot usually. Conflicts between them and the hunters are fre- quent, and the latter are often torn by the teeth and flippers of the furious creatures. The male harp, though, is a coward, and flies at the first sign of danger. The old hoods sometimes weigh three hundred pounds, and this tribe, generally, is larger than the harps, and steel-gray in color, the others brown. The young of both are difficult to tell apart, save by the nails on their flippers, which in the harp are black, and in the hood white. seal flipper Clipping assigned by SP. 20 Oct 2011 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Not used fippar, fipper, phripper This clip was found in the FIS drawer between F_15264 and 15265. Dr. Kirwin suggested that the word of interest is 'dog hood' but after reconsideration, decided to re-file under 'flipper'.