barrel

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1977
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/7037

barrel n At an average of ten barrels per haul, three hauls per day, Thirty barrels per day (a barrel is approximately one quintal) .Cod trap fishermen carry bags of about a four inch mesh size. There is no specific size for a bag, except perhaps there is a large size and a small size. In cases of more than a skiff load, including the load of the punt as well, the fish is put in a bag and the bag is tied fast to a mooring of the trap until next time around, or perhaps given to some handline fisherman who may happen by. A forty or fifty quintal haul is no guarantee of that much next time. Next time could perhaps be a water haul, that is no fish at all. (a barrel is approximately one quintal) DNE-cit JH 2/77 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Used I Only the first sentence of quote appears in DNE.