pound n

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/64506

pound n In Hall's Bay there are three large salmon brooks, in which weirs are constantly used.they are formed by placing a beam across the river; racks, resembling those in use in stables for horses, are formed about eight to ten feet long, which extend from the bottom of the river to the top of the beam, these run out from each side to within about three feet of each other, or extending to the deepest part of the river, where a passage is left for the ingress of the fish into a pound formed by extending the racks parallel with the banks of the river, to six or eight feet on either side, and crossed to meet their ends, forming a pound about six to eight feet square, the entrance to which.the fish can force in, but cannot return. PRINTED ITEM DNE Sup [Consider adding to DNE pound n, possibly as subsence (b) of sense 1] G.M.Story FEB. 4 1988 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used