quintals

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1978
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/67704

quintal n A banking vessel of then thousand fish ought to be filled in three weeks, and so in proportion; and eighty quintals (112lb. each) for a boat in the same time. P46. A heap of dried fish twenty feet long, and ten wide, and four deep, contains three hundred quintals. Such an heap settles, in the course of forty-eight hours after it is made, about 1-12th. PRINTED ITEM AUG 1978 W Kirwin AUG 1978 JH Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Used I 'cantal', 'kental', 'quintel', 'kantle', 'kintal(l)', 'kentalls','kentals', 'Quintal drum', '`fish drum', 'quintal faggot', '`drum', 'quintal of seals', 'quintals of bread' The first four lines of the cited quotation has a single square bracket to the left side of it, and this is the only part that appears in the dictionary.