tilts

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1964
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/78327

tilt n The houses or tilts of the fishermen ashore, the "freighters" or "stationers", vary in character as do the houses of the liveyers. Like the houses of the latter, they are generally rough structures, square in shape, built of poles or planks, covered with green or flowering sods. The freighters often bring birch bark from Newfoundland, with which the frame is spread before the sods are applied. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M. Story January 1964 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Used I tilts, tilt-back, tilt line, Tilt's distance, BAY TILT, linneys, smoke like a tilt, sit in one end of a tilt and burn the other sense 1 from DNE-cit, not Sup