ballycaters

shore � n Some of the phrases are highly picturesque. When you travel by hopping from pan to pan over ice so small that the individual pieces will not bear your weight, you are 'coppying over the ballycaters,' but only if it's shore ice, because a ballycater has to make along shore. P...

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Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Published: 1970
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Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/48118
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Summary:shore � n Some of the phrases are highly picturesque. When you travel by hopping from pan to pan over ice so small that the individual pieces will not bear your weight, you are 'coppying over the ballycaters,' but only if it's shore ice, because a ballycater has to make along shore. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M. Story JAN 1970 JH 1/70 Used I and Sup Not used 3 Used I EASTER, FRENCH, NORTH(ERN), SOUTH(ERN), STRAIGHT, TREATY, WESTERN, ~boat, ~boss, ~cod (fish), ~cod-fishery, ~fish, ~fishery, ~crew, ~cured fish, ~duck, ~fast, ~cure, ~fisherman, ~fishing, ~gang, ~herring, ~Labrador, ~man, ~net, ~plantation, ~punt, ~room, cite and quote are used I under head word 'shore'; word form 'shore ice'