beach n: to build beaches

beach n Winter was also the season for building beaches. Merchants who were starting up operations or needing to expand their beaches, hired men to bring gravel from the natural beach to the flat grassy area nearby.The process was repeated until the new beach was at a depth of about two feet. The ra...

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Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Published: 1988
Subjects:
English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland
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spelling ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/9436 2023-12-31T10:19:21+01:00 beach n: to build beaches 1988/06/09 image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/9436 eng eng B 1987 FIZZARD 139 References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 3221 B_3221_beach n http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/9436 Department of Folklore Original held in the Department of Folklore. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador Text Manuscript 1988 ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:32Z beach n Winter was also the season for building beaches. Merchants who were starting up operations or needing to expand their beaches, hired men to bring gravel from the natural beach to the flat grassy area nearby.The process was repeated until the new beach was at a depth of about two feet. The rate of pay for this work was about ten cents a barrel. PRINTED ITEM DNE Sup [Add to DNE beach n 1, or perhaps in a phr to parallel the phr _make bawn_ at DNE bawn n 3 ] G. M. Story JUN. 9 1988 WK Used I and Sup Used Sup 1 Used Sup Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI)
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spellingShingle English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
beach n: to build beaches
topic_facet English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
description beach n Winter was also the season for building beaches. Merchants who were starting up operations or needing to expand their beaches, hired men to bring gravel from the natural beach to the flat grassy area nearby.The process was repeated until the new beach was at a depth of about two feet. The rate of pay for this work was about ten cents a barrel. PRINTED ITEM DNE Sup [Add to DNE beach n 1, or perhaps in a phr to parallel the phr _make bawn_ at DNE bawn n 3 ] G. M. Story JUN. 9 1988 WK Used I and Sup Used Sup 1 Used Sup
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title beach n: to build beaches
title_short beach n: to build beaches
title_full beach n: to build beaches
title_fullStr beach n: to build beaches
title_full_unstemmed beach n: to build beaches
title_sort beach n: to build beaches
publishDate 1988
url http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/9436
genre Newfoundland
genre_facet Newfoundland
op_source Department of Folklore
Original held in the Department of Folklore.
Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore
op_relation B
1987 FIZZARD 139
References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php
Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database
3221
B_3221_beach n
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