summer tilts

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1969
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/55801

summer n but even this hut is good , compared with some of the summer tilts, which are constructed to carry on the fishery in the little harbours and coves, .w.h.ere, very often, a huge boulder or projecting rock forms the gable, or actual rere-dosse, as our ancestors called the only chimney, or substitute for a chimney, and from this chimney-rock, a few slight poles built up erect in an oblong form, with a pole-roof sloping against a bank, or rock, the whole covered with bark, when it can be had, which is seldom, or with turf; and with turf piled up against the side walls, without a window, and with only an apology for a door; and the whole interior scarcely affording standing room; . the smoke escaping always from an old barrel, or a square funnel of boards placed over the fire. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit W. J. KIRWIN SEP 2 1969 [see 'tilt' etc.] Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 4 Used I summer,sommer,FALL n,SPRING[S]2[S],~FISHERY,~HERRING,WINTER,SEASON,FISHING~,summer house,~place,~shack,~station,~tilt,~agent,~cod-fish,~fish,fishery,~herring,~house,~inhabitant,~mole,~people,~road,~time,~voyage,SERVANTn1,FLOATER,STATIONER,VOYAGE1n Source listed in DNE as 1842 BONNYCASTLE ii, 125