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snub A sure sign for a good fishing season was the catching of a '_snubbie_'[PT]. A snubbie is a cod fish which seems to have its face pushed in or else partly cut off ( see diagram ). [image] - ordinary cod [image] - snubbie [over] [reverse] It was quite unusual to catch one of these; per...
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ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/49952 2023-12-31T10:19:31+01:00 snubbie 1973/10/xx image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/49952 eng eng S Clifford E. Brown MS 71- 86/14 Joe Batt's Arm References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 18115 S_18115_snub http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/49952 Department of Folklore Original held in the Department of Folklore. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador Text Manuscript 1973 ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:39Z snub A sure sign for a good fishing season was the catching of a '_snubbie_'[PT]. A snubbie is a cod fish which seems to have its face pushed in or else partly cut off ( see diagram ). [image] - ordinary cod [image] - snubbie [over] [reverse] It was quite unusual to catch one of these; perhaps one would be caught every couple of years. The practice was to keep the head, clean it and hang the head over the splitting table in the stage for the entire summer. This was suppose to bring at least 100 quintals to the crew or man that caught it. When my uncle was explaining this he was careful to imply that this practice was only carried on by the older fishermen like his father. In the course of showing the unreliability of the practice he admitted that he practiced it himself as recently as ten years ago. [S]14[S] Yes JH 10/73 Used I Used I Not used snubby, SEAL-HEAD, COD, TALLY Reverse side of S_18114. Diagram included Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
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snub A sure sign for a good fishing season was the catching of a '_snubbie_'[PT]. A snubbie is a cod fish which seems to have its face pushed in or else partly cut off ( see diagram ). [image] - ordinary cod [image] - snubbie [over] [reverse] It was quite unusual to catch one of these; perhaps one would be caught every couple of years. The practice was to keep the head, clean it and hang the head over the splitting table in the stage for the entire summer. This was suppose to bring at least 100 quintals to the crew or man that caught it. When my uncle was explaining this he was careful to imply that this practice was only carried on by the older fishermen like his father. In the course of showing the unreliability of the practice he admitted that he practiced it himself as recently as ten years ago. [S]14[S] Yes JH 10/73 Used I Used I Not used snubby, SEAL-HEAD, COD, TALLY Reverse side of S_18114. Diagram included |
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