seal fishery (= a net)

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1975
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/55810

seal n .some of the natives used nets something like a Cod Net or Gill Net others what they called a Seal Fishery from some shoal point a long net something like a Cod seine one end of which was fastened to the shore at high water mark then out from the shore about 30 fathoms to an anchor the net then turned West for about another 30 fathoms to another anchor and all this part of the net was kept afloat with corks the bottom part leaded so as it would sink to the bottom to make a kind of fence from the last anchor it was not buoyed up with cork but carried ashore to a Capstan on a bank some 15 or twenty feet above high water . (= a net) JH 11/75 [~shot, ~skin, ~skinner, ~soap, ~twine, ~vat, vat, ~bird, ~penis, cock, ~worm, cod worm, ~frame, frame] squid finger, water pup, ~fish, ~fisher, ~fishery, ~hunt, ~fishing, ~gun, ~ing gun, ~hand, ~head, ~-head cod, snub1, ~hole, blow hole, bobbing~ , ~hunter, sealer1, ~hunting, ~killer, fish killer, ~meadow, ~man, ~net, ~oil, ~pan, ~pass, ~patch, ~pelt Used I and Sup Not used 4 Not used sile, soil, swale, swile, swoil(e), bay, harbour, harp, hood, old, square filpper, square a, young, bedlamer, dotard, ragged-jacket, saddleback, turner, white-coat, pelt n, sculp n, ~bait, ~bat, bat, ~cat, ~catcher, ~dart, dart n, dog1, ~fat, ~finger Not all collocations fit in field.