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last Another valuable recipe was to pick out herring with red fins without letting them touch wood, and then pass them round and round the scudding pole as many times as the number of lasts of herring you hoped to capture next autumn. A "last" means 1320 herrings. PRINTED ITEM GMS Feb 75 N...
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| Language: | English |
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1975
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| Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/44679 |
| Summary: | last Another valuable recipe was to pick out herring with red fins without letting them touch wood, and then pass them round and round the scudding pole as many times as the number of lasts of herring you hoped to capture next autumn. A "last" means 1320 herrings. PRINTED ITEM GMS Feb 75 Not used Not used Withdrawn Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Mon 08 Jun 2015, 'last' in DNE with different meaning |
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