seal frames

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1970
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland; Strait of Belle Isle
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/51536

seal n Seals are also taken in _seal_ _frames_ which are anchored immediately off shore. . . . The seal frame is a more elaborate affair than the net. It consists of three nets set at right angles so as to form a three sided enclosure with the shore making up the fourth side. One of the side nets is so arranged that it can be lowered to the bottom to be raised when a seal swims over it to enter the enclosure. , . . I do not know of seal frames existing south of Anchor Point nor outside of both sides of the Strait of Belle Isle. Canon Richards (1953b:15-16) states that they were invented locally by the Genges . . . PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit W. J. KIRWIN FEB 1970 JH 3/70 [~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 Not all collocations fit in field.