seal net berths

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1979
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Hopedale; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/48134

seal n Every man had his own seal net berths. Nobody would set a net at someone else's seal net berth. And nobody was allowed to shoot around another man's seal net berth. (John Hopkins, Hopedale). PRINTED ITEM SEP 1979 G. M. Story JH SEP 1979 [~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, ~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 Card not marked DNE-cit, but used. Not all collocations fit in field.