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applied not only to men, but to animals and inanimate things. A fish- 
erman will speak of a ‘clever built boat,” meaning that it is large and 
shapely. . The dictionaries from Johnson onward give as one meaning of 
the word “ well shaped or handsome.” But he describes it as ‘fa low 
word scarcely ever used but in burlesque or in conversation and applied 
to anything a man likes, without a settled meaning.” Wright gives it 
as in the east of England meaning good looking and in Lancashire as 
denoting lusty, which when applied to men is nearly the Newfoundland 
idea, and probably the nearest to the old English. 
Crop, commonly pronounced crap, the personal equipment of a man 
going on a sealing voyage supplied by the merchants but distinct from 
the provisions, ete. 
Draft or draught in old English and still in the provinces means a 
team of horses or oxen, and also that drawn by them, a load. As the 
Newfoundlanders generally had no teams, they have come to use it to 
denote a load for two men to carry, hence two quentals of fish. 
Dredge pronounced in Newfoundland drudge, is used to denote the 
sprinkling of salt over herring when caught, and mixing them together, 
to preserve them in the meantime. It is the same word that is used in 
cooking to denote sprinkling flour on meat for which we still have the 
dredging box. Skeat (Etym. Dictionary) gives a general meaning to 
sprinkle as in sowing dreg, dredge, mixed corn, oats and barley. 
In connection with this they have the dredge barrow pronounced 
drudge barrow, a barrow with handles and a trough to hold salt, for 
carrying the fish from the boat to the splitting table. 
Driver is the old English word for a four cornered fore and aft sail 
attached to the mizenmast of a vessel, now usually known as the spanker. 
It is now used in Newfoundland to denote a small sail at the stern of 
their fishing punts or boats. The rig 1am imformed was common among 
the fishermen of England and Jersey. 
Drung’d or drunge’d equivalent to thronged of which itis probably a 
corruption. 
Duclies. Twilight is expressed as ‘between the duckies,” an 
expression which seems to resemble the Hebrew phrase “ between the 
two evenings.” So duckish meaning dark or glocmy, which Wright and 
Halliwell give as Dorsetshire for twilight. We may add here that the 
break of day is expressed as the crack of the daanin. 
