winter crews

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1965
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/75359

winter n The first settlements were made by small detached parties of Englishmen known in the island parlance as "winter crews," who remained on the coast to cut wood for building houses, flakes, stages, cook-rooms, and boats for the spring. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G,M.Story October 1965 Used I and Sup Used I 4 Used I winter duck, winter moth, winter fish, winter-house, winter road, winter gull, winter pear, winter cabin, winter house, winter place, winter quarters, winter room, winter rooms, wintershack, winter station, winter credit, winter crew, winter diet, tilte