course n Cp OED ~ sb 12 b 'points' of the compass. Comb course-bag: in the Bank fishery, container from which lots are drawn assigning areas for dories to fish.
   1942 Grand Bank U C School 34 [A] course bag is a canvas cylinder with a wooden bottom. [There are] eleven square wooden blocks, with eleven points of the compass on them. A man from each dory put in his hand and drew out a block. The course that was on that block was the course that man's dory had to go from the ship, to put out its trawls.

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