jack-o-Tar n

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1990
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/38537

jackatar n composed. I did not see these, but they have been visited and described by Mr. John Milne, M.E., Fossils of Lower Silurian age are abundant and well preserved in most of the rocks of Port a Port and we collected a great many during the season. Fine pencil like graptolites, and beauti- ful web like dendrograptus were particularly abundant in some of the more shaly portions. At the extreme of the Long Point facing the open gulf the limestone ledges are filled with ancient corals, sponges and such like fossils and some of the surfaces exhibit the trails of some animals, probably trilobites, which left deep groves in the mud, crossing and recrossing each other many times. *Did he describe jackatars? W.J.KIRWIN [check] W.J.KIRWIN MAR 1 1990 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Not used jackie tar, jackitar, jack-o-tar, jackotaw, jacky tar, jack-tar, jacky Checked by Sarah Budgell on Thu 09 Apr 2015; Checked by Cathy Wiseman on Mon 13 Jul 2015; Reverse side of card at J_13473