| Summary: | seal n .when the men'd go out to the seal fishery in _ in the Spring o' the year,if they cut their finger or anything, an' the oil of the seal got into it it usually 'twould cause what they call a "seal finger". An' if it got infected an' got real bad they would go ashore to some place down on the Labrador,wherever they were closest to. (infected finger caused by cut etc which had come into contact with seal oil - and germs?) Yes DNE-cit J. D.A. WIDDOWSON AUG 1974 [~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 and Sup 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 Source listed in DNE as T 377-67. Not all collocations fit in field.
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