| Summary: | shoreman n on the same platform, is the salt-house, in which there are one or more tables, with strong wooden stools for four important personages among the shoremen, distinguished by the expressive cognomens of cut-throat, header, splitter, and salter.* *The splitter is next in rank to the foreman of the fishing-rooms, who is called master voyage, and under him, receives most wages; the next in precedence and wages is the salter. The cut-throad and header are pretty much on a par. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit Used I Used I 1 Used I CUT v, ~ -THROAT, HEADER, SALTER, SPLITTER; SHORE�: ~ CREW, LANDSMAN. The source is listed as 1832 MCGREGOR i, 228 in DNE with only part of the citation on card is in DNE.
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