a trap leader

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1970
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/73322

trap 1 n Now certain positions are thought better than others for setting traps, with the result that there is every spring a race from Newfoundland to get them, . . . The law does not allow traps to be set till a certain day, and the leading net must be put out to secure the berth - and unless within four days the whole trap is set, the claim becomes void. Thus, while the ice was still on the shores of Labrador, a steamer was sent ahead with numbers of men, each armed with a "trap leader," to get ahead of the sailing schooners which were working their perilous way along inside the floe ice. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M. Story AUG 1970 JH AUG 1970 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 2 Used I ~berth, boat, fisherman, skiff, cod trap, buoy, cod (fish), fish, crew, fishery, fishing, gear, glut, keg, cag, lead, leader, linnet, loft, twine loft, man, master, mooring, trap-net, season, skipper, system, time, vee, voyage