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ship v A basic meaning of the verb "to ship" is to send by ship. It has long also been used in Newfoundland (and North America) to send by any other means. Another basic meaning (intransitive and transitive) is to go, or to be taken on, as a seaman aboard a ship, whence "shipping pape...
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ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/55557 2023-12-31T10:13:50+01:00 ship 1963/08/xx image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/55557 eng eng S 1963 CREWE Slade Monograph II References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 16177 S_16177_ship v http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/55557 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 1963 ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:30Z ship v A basic meaning of the verb "to ship" is to send by ship. It has long also been used in Newfoundland (and North America) to send by any other means. Another basic meaning (intransitive and transitive) is to go, or to be taken on, as a seaman aboard a ship, whence "shipping paper" for the relevant contract. In Newfoundland (and perhaps elsewhere) this meaning has been extended to cover any kind of employment, but I think that it is only here that this meaning is still commonly used, e.g., you ship a clerk, a dom- estic, etc., and they ship to you. In Newfoundland the verb has also been used for generations meaning to sell produce of the country, e.g. "Skipper Mark Chard shipped his fish" (oil, seals, berries, etc.,) to Slade's. Also, in Newfoundland, to ship out, or to limb out, a tree, means to cut off its branches, and, by metonymy, to ship out a man means to demolish him in a fist fight. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M.Story August 1963 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 3 Used I shipped, ship green, GREEN, ship out, LIMB, SHIVE*. The source is listed as P 54-63 in DNE and only part of the cited quotation on card is in DNE. Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
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ship v A basic meaning of the verb "to ship" is to send by ship. It has long also been used in Newfoundland (and North America) to send by any other means. Another basic meaning (intransitive and transitive) is to go, or to be taken on, as a seaman aboard a ship, whence "shipping paper" for the relevant contract. In Newfoundland (and perhaps elsewhere) this meaning has been extended to cover any kind of employment, but I think that it is only here that this meaning is still commonly used, e.g., you ship a clerk, a dom- estic, etc., and they ship to you. In Newfoundland the verb has also been used for generations meaning to sell produce of the country, e.g. "Skipper Mark Chard shipped his fish" (oil, seals, berries, etc.,) to Slade's. Also, in Newfoundland, to ship out, or to limb out, a tree, means to cut off its branches, and, by metonymy, to ship out a man means to demolish him in a fist fight. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M.Story August 1963 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 3 Used I shipped, ship green, GREEN, ship out, LIMB, SHIVE*. The source is listed as P 54-63 in DNE and only part of the cited quotation on card is in DNE. |
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