spur-shores*

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/43796

spur-shore n .and these piles is drove today so close as they can go, but for the old-time wharf [it] was strouters and they were about a couple of feet apart, you see. And spur-shores*, we used to call them, would go at an angle from, say.go down on the east side of the wharf and the ends will rest on the west side. That will leave.the wharf can't.shift, you know, from east to west. [* spelling?] [see 'shoars', 'shores', ] 'stouter' Yes DNE-cit J. WIDDOSON Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Used I spur, shore, shoars, shores, stouter