go shareman

shareman n When you go fishin' you'll be share(man) _ you'd go _ go as shareman. Well, you go shareman, well you get your share o' fish, you see. If .the voyage, we'll say, turned out a thousand dollars, well that money _ the man _ the skipper took his share an' a share...

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Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Published: 1974
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Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/42879
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Summary:shareman n When you go fishin' you'll be share(man) _ you'd go _ go as shareman. Well, you go shareman, well you get your share o' fish, you see. If .the voyage, we'll say, turned out a thousand dollars, well that money _ the man _ the skipper took his share an' a share for the ship, see, an' the other seven or eight shares was divided up with the men. Now whatever that come to for each man, that's what they got for the summer. If they got no fish they got nothing. Yes DNE-cit J.D.A.WIDDOWSON MAR 1974 [-]share[-] Used I and Sup Used I 2 Used I fisherman, shoreman, come/go shareman. The source is listed as T 100/2-64 in DNE and only part of the cited quotation on card is in DNE. There are two phonetic transcriptions on card.