sac n /sac ships, sac-boat system

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1988
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/55905

sack2 n By the 1680s and 1690s the Islands were also engaged in sending a small number of 'sac' ships to Newfoundland whose purpose was to purchase fish that had already been caught. The 'sac-boat system', as has been pointed out, 'involved a more highly complex capitalist system than the operations of the fishing captains who caught their own fish yearly and bartered it cheaply for continental goods'. PRINTED ITEM DNE Sup I will also get this 1956 cite. TDA: Stephens, who possibly gets his uses from Innis and Lounsbury. A.G. Jamieson ed _A People of the Sea; The Maritime_ _History of the Channel Islands_. (London: Methuen, 1986. J.C. Appleby, "Neutrality, Trade and Privateering, 1500-1689 59-105. Background. Possibly use the spelling. FEB 25 1988 G. M. Story [check] WK Used I and Sup Used Sup Used Sup sack, sack ship, sac, in sack, sack boat, sack boat system Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Fri 16 Oct 2015