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/67892

quintal n How much is a quintal?" asked Allie. "Oh, a quintal is different, according," laughed Mr. Godard. "It's 212 pounds of wet fish, just out of the water, and, as fish shrink one-half in drying, it's 112 pounds of dry fish. We measure all our fish, dry or wet, by quintals, because that's the way we sell it. Our boats hold so many quintals; the men returning from fishing ground have caught so many quintals; _not_ so many pounds or so many fish,-- and at the end of the season each man's share is so many quintals. PRINTED ITEM NB W.J. KIRWIN JAN 1978 JH JAN 1978 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 seven 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.