sunkers

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1972
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/58862

sunker n Lying offshore from the fiord-riven cliffs are clusters of low islands, many of them sea-swept; and seeded among these, like dragon's teeth, lie innumerable underwater reefs and rocks which the coast dwellers call - with chilling simplicity - "sunkers." The number of ships they have wrecked is legion . . . they remain a thing of terror on black and storm-swept nights, or when the corpse blanket of fog smothers land and sea alike. G. M. Story OCT 1972 OCT 1972 JH PRINTED ITEM Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Not used sunken rock, SUNKEN ROCK; BREAKER; GROUNDER