sealkillers

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1970
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/45100

seal n In 1830 there was such another frost, the sealkillers were out at the ice, when the gales drove them south fifty miles or more. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit W.J.KIRWIN APR 1970 JH 4/70 [~shot, ~skin, ~skinner, ~soap, ~twine, ~vat, vat, ~bird, ~penis, cock, ~worm, cod worm] 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, ~pass, ~patch, ~pelt 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 Part of the cited quotation is only quoted.Not all collocations fit in field.