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door n
1 In various types of fixed or stationary
fishing-gear, the entrance; esp in a 'cod-trap,' a section of the box-like net structure
placed to permit fish to enter. Also attrib.
1895 GRENFELL 67 A
long telescope, with a plain glass bottom—the fish glass—is pushed down into
the room, through which the trap-master is peering to see how many finny prisoners there
are. Now the door is pulled up, and now the floor is rising—rising—rising,
being passed right over the boat, until all the frightened captives are huddled together
in one seething mass near the surface. 1936 SMITH 16 The doors of the [cod] trap were
nine inches open, the rim of the trap eight fathoms deep and the leader of the trap four
and a half fathoms. P 148-61 ~ Slatted entrance at one side of lobster trap. T 43-64
When you lets go your first lot o' linnet in underneath, you also let go your doors. Now
your trap is goin' down in the same shape it was in when you pulled it up. 1966 SCAMMELL
38 'I s'pose your father got his moorings out all ready?' Mr Blanchard said casually,
coiling two Manilla door-ropes on the splitting table. Q 67-34 Door lines are lines
fastened to the bottom of the mouth of the trap (sometimes this opening is called
doorways) and comes to the surface of the water; by these the trap is raised, closing the
doorway as the trap rises to the surface. T 141/67-652 An' I said. 'We can
handle what we got, but haul up the doors—there's enough in un for you.' An' he
hauled up the doors, an' we with the best part o' the bag o' the trap up, an' took eighty
barrels out of un. 1979 Salt Water, Fresh Water 46 And when you go to haul the
trap, the first thing you do is lift up your rope and close the door off, so that the
fish cannot get out of the trap.
2 Comb door box:
porch or shelter at the entrance of a house, 'fishing-stage,' etc.
T 80-64 He put in a night or two hangin' round the station, an'
sleepin' out in the door box—anywhere out o' the weather. P 55-68 In the front of
the stage there was a fairly large door which was kept closed by a piece of rope tied to
the door-box.
door place: open space near usual entrance to
a house.
Q 67-109 ~ area where wood is sawed and split. Q 71-8
One of the things I likes about St John's is the beautiful door-places what you calls
'lawns.' P 122-71 Clean the door place! (area directly adjacent to back door of a home).
doorway: see sense 1 above. Also attrib.
T 43-64 This leader would guide the fish to the mouth of the trap,
what the old fishermen used to call doorways. The fish would go in the doorways and now
it couldn't come back. Q 67-91 Doorway float (used to suspend section of the net in the
water]. P 9-73 The doorway is about two to three fathoms wide, and the leader fastens in
the middle, both bottom and top. An iron rod is sometimes used, as a sinker for the
doorway; it is about one inch in diameter. 1977 Inuit Land Use 132 Care had to be
taken in setting the traps... However, if properly set, the cod would follow the leader
net into the doorway of the trap and be caught.
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