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baiting n Cp DAE ~ vbl n2 'the laying in of a supply of bait'
(1881) for sense 1; Fisheries of U S i, 183-6 for both senses 1 and 2. See CAPLIN,
HERRING, SPRING, SQUID for comb with baiting, which is also freq preceded by
fresh, frozen or first, seeond, third in both senses.
1 A quantity of caplin, herring, or squid taken aboard a
'banker' at one time for use as bait in trawl-fishing.
1895 PROWSE
478 Their full complement for their first baiting on herring amounts to fifty-four
thousand barrels. [1930] 1980 Evening Telegram 9 July, p. 6 Squid put in an
appearance at Holyrood yesterday and bankers are expected to arrive there for baitings in
a day or two. [1959] 1965 PEACOCK (ed) i, 138 ~ "Labrador": It was on a Monday morning we
got her under way, / All to look for a baiting down in Conception Bay, / We understood in
Burin, we took our bait in there, / And when we arrived to Holyrood twenty thousand was
our share. 1960 FUDGE 10 We secured a baiting from the netters there, and in a short
while were anchored on the fishing grounds. Ibid 17 On May 20th, 1913, we took our first
baiting at Great Harbour, Conniger Bay, and sailed for the Banks.
2 A fishing voyage to the Banks, the duration fixed by the
supply of bait aboard the vessel.
1960 FUDGE 11 We used all our
bait in five days and caught for that baiting 180 quintals of fine cod fish. Ibid 11 We
anchored on the bank close to where we fished on our previous baiting. With God's help we
filled our little vessel to the hatches and made tracks again for home. M 70-27 The names
of our trips [to the Banks] were as follows: the frozen baiting, fished mostly on the
Western Banks and Rose Blanche Banks...
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