GLOSSARY 



AuNTSART. A bird of the wading genus, resembling a redshank. 

 (Greater Yellow-legs, Tolanus melanoUucus. The name is still used in 

 Labrador.] 



Angle of a Beaverhouse. The entrance; it is always under water. 



Baked Apples. The fruit of a plant so called, from the similarity of 

 taste to that of the pulp of a roasted apple. [" Bake apple " or cloud- 

 berry, Ruhus Chamaemorns.] 



Barrens. Elevated lands, which will not produce timber. 



Barricados. That ice which is formed upon the shore above low- 

 water mark. 



Beavek - CcTONGS. A furrier's term for those trees or sticks which 

 have been cut down by beavers. It is also used for the stumps which are 

 left. 



Block up a Boat. To place blocks, or logs of wood under her keel. 



Bobber. A small piece of wood, which is made fast by a piece of line 

 (called the bobber-line) to that corner of a shoal-net next to the land, 

 which, by floating upon the water, shews where the net is. 



Bridge of a Deatiifall. A piece of board placed within a deathfall; 

 one end of which is hung to a small stake by a piece of twine, and the 

 other end Ls supported in an horizontal position by a peg (called a tongue.) 

 NVhen an animal treads on it, the peg Is drawn out, which sets the cat- 

 killer at liberty, and that falls upon the back of the creature and kills it. 



Bridge of a Trap. A plate of iron in the centre of a trap for the 

 animal to tread on, which then falling down, sets the jaws at liberty. 



Bulk of Fish. A quantity of fish salted one upon another. 



Bull. A small sea bird. I believe it is called the ice-bird. [Dovekie 

 or little auk, Alle alle.] 



Busk. \ piece of board which is pointed at one end and broad at 

 the other. V\'hen a furboard is not broad enough to spread a skin prop- 

 erly, the bask is introduced on the belly side to stretch it completely. 



Callibogus. a mixture of spnico-boor and rum. 



Cai'LIN. a fish " Salrno Archcus " IVnnant. \.\fnlhtus trillosiis.] 



Cat - house. A hut of boughs erected over a trap, to defend it from 

 snow. 



CuiNRiNf;. Filling with mo.ss, the vacancies between the studs of 

 houses, to keep out the wind and frost. 



CoDSTAGE. A covered platform, which is built, projecting over the 

 water, to split and salt codfish in. 



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