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dry a Cp OED ~ a 2 (esp Nfld 1677 quot 'dry fish'); DAE dry
fish (1616-); DC ~ fish (Nfld: 1905).Comb dry bulk: dried and salted
cod-fish stacked in layers; BULK n.
1909 GRENFELL2
(ed) 284 The fish can be preserved in wet bulk all winter by putting enough salt between
adjacent layers to prevent them from touching one another. It may also be preserved as
dry bulk in piles covered over and well pressed down.
dry-cure
v: to preserve cod-fish by light applications of salt and through exposure to sun and
wind; the method of doing this; cp CURE. HARD-DRIED.
1977 BUTLER
20 At the time, merchants were paying the men washing and dry-curing fish on their
premises the hourly pay of eight to ten cents per hour.
dry
diet: habitual fare of ship biscuit, dried and salted fish and meat, etc (1925
Dial Notes v, 330); cp WINTER DIET.
1919
GRENFELL1 119 The poor fellow was a skeleton, with the characteristic sunken
face and fallen skin with which we are familiar in those living on what we know as 'dry
diet.'
dry fish: cod-fish preserved by exposure to sun and
wind after application of salt; FISH, SALT FISH.
[1577-8] 1935
Richard Hakluyt [Parkhurst's letter:] 124 We might not only sell thynges better
chepe, but mighte make grete store of dry fysshe. 1613 Willoughby Papers 16a, 25
[inventory] 6 hundred of dry fish ... for there dyett. [1712] 1895 PROWSE 273 They load
with dry fish bound to several ports as Spain and Portugal. [1766] 1971 BANKS 135 Their
Dry Fish are only opend Down to the navel. [1786] 1792 CARTWRIGHT iii, 211 A good deal of
dry-fish was spoiled on Durant's Island, where the Jersey fishery is carried on. 1866
WILSON 212 In the month of August, the merchant's large boat, or galloper, goes to the
planter's fishing-room, to select the first 'dry fish.' 1936 SMITH 17 After the next time
spread [the cured cod-fish] would be shipped on board the dry fish vessel and the
supercargo would inspect it and pass his verdict. T 192/3-65 Two falls I went to St
John's with our fish, our dry fish; carried it up to sell it there. 1975 BUTLER 63 My
grandfather was in the dry fish business [and] had two schooners to freight dry fish,
salmon, herring and mackerel to St John's and bring back supplies.
dry moss: beard moss (Usnea barbata); DEAD MOSS, DEER
~ (1971 NOSEWORTHY 195).
dry pile: split and salted
cod-fish placed in a stack towards the end of the curing process, PILE n.
[1663] 1963 YONGE 58 After [the pressed pile process the fish is]
dried one day on the ground and then put up in dry pile, as they call it, that is a pile
bigger than the prest pile by 3 times.
dry-salt v: to
prepare split cod-fish, or seal pelts, for curing by placing them in layers with
applications of salt.
1854 Chambers's Journ xxi, 76 As soon
as the pelts reach St John's, they are unshipped, and immediately begin to undergo a
series of manipulations. The first operation after being landed, is that of separating
the fat from the skin: a dexterous hand can manage 400 a day. The pelts are dry-salted
for a month, and are then sufficiently cured for shipment. 1937 Seafisheries of Nfld
45 In the dry salting method, the fish, having been split, are placed with the flesh
upwards side by side, usually head to tail alternately, until a space in the curing stage
about three feet in width and varying from four to twelve feet in length is covered; dry
salt is then spread over the surface of the fish; another layer of fish is placed upon
the first, and so on, until the pile or bulk reaches the height that the curers deem
advisable.
dry set: the placing of an animal trap on land
rather than in the water; SET n.
P 9-73 Mink, otter, muskrat and
beaver ... could be caught in dry sets or on the land if the set was properly arranged in
the right place.
semi-dry: a grade of cod-fish involving a
quick drying operation.
1958 Evening Telegram 11 Feb, p. 19
I know large Madeira, small Madeira, West India, semi-dry, ordinary cure, Labrador cure,
large and small merchantable, and cullage, and more recently the new cull known as
thirds.
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