loom

• 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/45581

loom The sea contributes a number of effects of especial interest. Thus, mirage is of not infrequent occurence, and is said by the _Newfoundland and Labrador Pilot_ to be "characteristic of the few fine days of summer" off the Labrador coast. The fishermen call it "loom." It may be caused by distant low-lying mists, or by heated strata of air. The latter were sometimes clearly visible in certain directions over the water, distorting the horizion, or as a thin streak above the calm surface between us and some not far-off island. Schooners and icebergs frequently thus appeared doubled or tripled, in the latter case with the middle image inverted; and with the images sometimes overlapping or sometimes (over) [reverse] placed one high above the other. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G. M. Story AUG 1970 JH AUG 1970 Not used Not used Withdrawn [see 'glim'] Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Wed 17 May 2015, Reverse side of card at L_16090, stamped but not used