barge

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1975
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/9715

barge . . . 20 miles west of Blanc Sablon it was all hook and Line fishermen using a boat what they ->called a Barge carrying two men with two spruce Oars about 12 to 15 feet two spars with a Mainsail and foresail and jib the jib was to help turn the boat when they brought it up in the wind as the jib caught the force of the wind first and helped turn the boat in the opposite direction next _the [-]g[-] foresail_ and then [sic] the mainsail which made them keel over on their side sometimes gunwhale in the water and drive them ahead at a very good speed. Of course they had to be well ->ballasted . . . A Barge looked like an English Life boat sharp at both ends . . . DNE-cit JH 11/75 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Used I Source appears in DNE I as: P 102-60. On eighth line of quote, 'the g foresail': g has been crossed out and [sic] has been written in the margin. Two arrows have been writen in pencil, pointing at lines three and twelve ofquote.