indulgence

indulgence n From the trapskiff the fish was pronged onto the stagehead. From there the cutthroater carried them inside to the splitting table. In later years one of the crew hands would do this carrying job, keeping a box called an 'indulgence' (for the old hands this was a luxury) filled...

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Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Published: 1973
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Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/37235
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Summary:indulgence n From the trapskiff the fish was pronged onto the stagehead. From there the cutthroater carried them inside to the splitting table. In later years one of the crew hands would do this carrying job, keeping a box called an 'indulgence' (for the old hands this was a luxury) filled for the cutthroater. DNE-cit JH 11/73 Used I Used I 1 Used I Checked by Sarah Budgell on Tue 17 mar 2015