bally carter
bally carter .a solid wall of stranded boulders at some little distance from the shore, forced into position by the sea ice, and called by the settlers and schoonermen, "bally carters," a corruption, evidently, of barricadoes. Gathorne_Hardy Misunderstanding somewhere. W.K. Not used Not us...
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| Summary: | bally carter .a solid wall of stranded boulders at some little distance from the shore, forced into position by the sea ice, and called by the settlers and schoonermen, "bally carters," a corruption, evidently, of barricadoes. Gathorne_Hardy Misunderstanding somewhere. W.K. Not used Not used Not used LP: Scanned and additional information added by Leslie Pierce on 5 September 2008. |
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