wing fences

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1972
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/73347

wing n The other kind of fence is always built on the North side of the river, and is so constructed, that a herd of deer having once entered, it is almost impossible for one of them to escape.They erect two high, and very strong fences, parallel to each other, forming a narrow lane of some length, and stretching / into the country. From the farther end of each, they extend two very long wing-fences, the extremities of which are from one mile to two, or more, asunder. The deer travel in small companies, few of them exceeding a dozen head, and when they meet with these hawk, or wing-fences, they walk along them, until they are insensibly drawn into the pound, as partridges are into a funnel net. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit W. J. KIRWIN DEC 1972 JH DEC 1972 GMS Feb 77 Used I Used I Used I [see hawk] wing, wing fence, wing pound, POUND, HAWK, wing fences Pencil marking indicating to switch the r and i in "partirdges"