swile huntin'

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1978
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/44193

seal n ".only the night before he must've been dreamin' he and Jonas were swile huntin' because he'd bawled out in his sleep, 'Jonas boy, you take this swatch. I'll take the one further to the nor'ard.' PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M.Story JAN 1978 JH JAN 1978 [~shot, ~skin, ~skinner, ~soap, ~twine, ~vat, vat, ~bird, ~penis, cock, ~worm, cod worm, ~frame, frame] squid finger, water pup, ~fish, ~fisher, ~fishery, ~hunt, ~fishing, ~gun, ~ing gun, ~hand, ~head, ~-head cod, snub1, ~hole, blow hole, bobbing~ , ~hunter, sealer1, ~hunting, ~killer, fish killer, ~meadow, ~man, ~net, ~oil, ~pan, ~ Used I and Sup Used I 4 Used I sile, soil, swale, swile, swoil(e), bay, harbour, harp, hood, old, square filpper, square a, young, bedlamer, dotard, ragged-jacket, saddleback, turner, white-coat, pelt n, sculp n, ~bait, ~bat, bat, ~cat, ~catcher, ~dart, dart n, dog1, ~fat, ~finger Not all collocations fit in field.