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   1 1984 GOUGH 99 [Ern's berth] was a sweet one and had been in the family for as long as anyone could remember. Other coves might draw for their berths--but here they were passed down as secure and as placed as a pew. 1987 POOLE 69 That spring when the fishermen came they wanted me to draw for berths, but I was too stubborn to draw... They drew for the berths that were left, the ones that I didn't have.
   3 Phr draw/dry up.
   [1856] 1977 WHITELEY 37 'The modus operandi is...to anchor on either side of the bag...draw it up, fastening the ends to the thole pins.' [1937] 1945 SCAMMELL 38 "Payne's Cove Bait Skiff": A good winter's diet for Skipper Phil's sow,/But we've dried up enough in the seine, anyway. 1981 SPARKES 187 To haul the trap the doors are hauled up, thus enclosing permanently all the fish within the trap. Then the sides are hauled up and the fish are said to be 'dried up' and so they are dipped into the skiffs by men using large dipnets. 1984 Evening Telegram 22 Mar, p. 5A The haul is complete when the fish have been dried up in a corner at the back of the trap. 1989 Sunday Express 26 Mar, p. 7 I could now better understand what trapmen had meant when they could say, even when we dried up 2,000 pounds--a full ton of protein in a single haul--'Well, you can't call this fish.' P 245-89 'The men were hard at it, drying up the twine at the caplin fishery.'
   4 Comb draw-bucket.
   1986 FELTHAM 105 The container used [to secure sea water to wash cod in the stage] was called a 'draw-bucket.'

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