sunker n
sunker n In many places, just outside the churn of the surf, were rocky half-tide ledges--"sunkers," they call them in Newfoundland's lugubrious maritime vocabulary--on which the seas broke heavily.] Those who set their pots as close as they dared to the sunkers, it seemed to me, got...
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| Summary: | sunker n In many places, just outside the churn of the surf, were rocky half-tide ledges--"sunkers," they call them in Newfoundland's lugubrious maritime vocabulary--on which the seas broke heavily.] Those who set their pots as close as they dared to the sunkers, it seemed to me, got the most lobsters. PRINTED ITEM [Add to DNE sunker n 1, 1977 cite.] G.M. Story DEC.8 1987 WK Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Used Sup sunken rock, SUNKEN ROCK; BREAKER; GROUNDER |
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