| Summary: | servant [S] 1 [S] n They are the men of the south coast, whose ancestors were expelled from Placentia when the English took it from the French, hired as servants in the Channel Islands when the great Newman Company went out to trade in fish and oil, or landed here as planters and sharemen in the great days of the shore fishery and the transatlantic fish trade. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M.Story JAN 1970 JH 1/70 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Used I FISHERY SERVANT, FISHING ~ . Cp DIETER, wages-servant, summer servants, servant passengers, shareman, seruants. Only part of the cited quotation is in DNE.
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