jack

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1959
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/38638

jack1 n a fishing-boat.from seven to fifteen ton's burden. The deck has open standing spaces forward and aft for the fishermen to stand in while they fish. The deck is formed of movable boards. It is schooner-rigged, but without either fore or main boom. The foresail is trimmed aft by a sheet, and the mainsail trimmed aft to horns or pieces of wood projecting from the quarters. It thus avoids the danger of either of the booms knocking the fishermen overboard. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M.Story July 1959 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Used I jack-blunt, jack's alive, jack-boat, BULLY1, jack-easy, jack curlew, CURLEW, jack fisherman, jack-jump-up-and-kiss-me, jack root, BLOOD ROOT Checked by Cathy Wiseman on Fri 26 Jun 2015; quotation Used I but from different source than on card '1896 J A Folklore ix, 34'