skiver

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1964
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/55999

skiver n Now in the centre of the pot there's a skiver,we'll say, about. a little stick about six inches long,oh right small in the end, about the size of my thumb, and then.in the big end, and right away to a point.There's a piece of line attached to the under-end and a piece of line attached to the pot, to the bottom and to the top. There's also a little piece of leather with a hole in cut down the size of this skiver. And that's on the line; the line is drove through it. Well now I'll put my bait, my herring or whatever I has for bait on this skiver,and then push down the bit of leather on the stick as well as on the line, and that'll keep it stuck perpendicular for the lobster to get. Yes DNE-cit J WIDDOSON [-]=C31[-] Used I Used I 2 Used I skivver, ~line Cited quotation only partially used in DNE, and paraphrased. Listed with souce as "T 13/20-64".