shalloway

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1979
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland; Head Island
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/53801

shalloway n Our boats are not sizeable for that service, for our fishing ledges, not lying above a mile or two, from our harbours' mouth, our boats are built accordingly, but the ledges of that port lying 8 or 10 leagues off [Placentia] the French were obliged to build a larger sort called shalloways, fitted with a deck, that can keep the sea five or six days for a loading. [Head's note: p. 80 the French fished offshore in small 3-man boats. Larger decked boats called shalloways, capable of staying at sea 5 or 6 days, apparently collected the fish from these primary fishing stations on shore and returned it to the main station at Placentia.] PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit GMS May 79 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Used I sherway, shallowayes, BARASWAY, shallop, ~ Brook/ Cove/Head/Island/Point/Pond. The source is listed as [1715] ibid 80 in DNE and part of the quotation on card is not cited in DNE.