overing

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Arctic; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/59714

overing vbl n Besides the ordinary methods of getting a ship through the ice of towing and tracking, there were two special ways of breaking it called "overing" and "milldolling." "Overing" consisted of the crew running in a body from one side of the ship to the other in order to give her a rolling movement and break the ice up round her . "Milldolling" was an even older method of breaking through ice. A boat, the oldest for preference, as it was not very good for it, was slung under the bowsprit by a tackle. This, if the ice was light enough, was rolled from side to side to break a way ahead of the ship, but often the ice was prehaps too thick for this method so the boat (over) was actually hoisted under the jib-bom and then dropped back on top of the ice so as to smash it up by its weight, a boy in the boat being sufficient then to give it a rolling motion and still further open up the lead. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit by G. M. Story JAN 1971 JH JAN 1971 Used I Used I Used I continued on next card "O_13771_overing vbl n"