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drudge v also dredge. Cp OED dredge v1 1 'bring up
[oysters]' for sense 1; dredge v2 2 'to sprinkle (any powdered substance)' for
sense 2; OED ~ v 1 'to work hard or slavishly' for comb in sense 3.
1 To catch herring.
T
141/67-652 Catch a lot of fish like you would herring years ago, drudge it in.
Course we used to drudge in herring then, go down to Green Bay.
2 To sprinkle salt on herring as a preservative.
1896 J A Folklore ix, 28 Dredge, pronounced in Newfoundland
drudge, is used to denote the sprinkling of salt over herring when caught, and
mixing them together to preserve them in the mean time. 1937 DEVINE 19 ~ To sprinkle
salt on a deck load of fresh herring; also to 'rouse' them. 1977 BUTLER 16 We dressed and
dredged the herring ourselves in the boat. Dredging herring is sprinkling salt through
them.
3 Comb drudge bar(row), dredge ~ : a
rectangular wooden frame, often with a tub fitted on top, with handles at each end
enabling two men to pull, carry or slide fish, etc; cpBARROW1, FISH BARROW,
HAND- ~ .
[1663] 1963 YONGE 57 When the fish is split, he falls
into a drooge barrow, which, when full, is drawn to one side of the stage, where boys lay
it one on top of another. 1819 ANSPACH 431 [The splitter] pushes the fish into the
drudge-barrow. 1866 WILSON 210 The splitter ... slides the fish into a
drudge-barrow... When ... full, it is dragged to the upper end of the stage, where the
fish is taken out and salted. 1909 BROWNE 68 The fish is then slapped into a dredge
barrow and borne to the end of the stage to the salt bulk. 1924 ENGLAND 267 There they
labour all day, making up the fish, carrying it on dredge barrows, spreading and turning
it. T 43-64 The stage would have to be a big place because there was so much stuff in it,
like drudge barrows—what they used to pull the fish along in to the salt bulk. This
drudge barrow was made half-moon fashion so as 'twould slip along on the beddin' of the
stage easy. M 71-117 When split, the fish went into a puncheon partly filled with salt
water. From there it went by means of a 'drudgebarrow'—a square barrow on runners
with a rope strap at the head for hauling—to the salter whose job was to salt the
fish and stack it into a saltbulk pile which was the width of two fish and in length
stretched across the back end of the stage.
drudge horn:
cow's horn used for administering medicine to cow or other large farm animal (P
245-58).
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