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fall n OED ~ sb1 2 for fall of the year; DAE 3
b; cp SPRING2: spring of the year.
1 Phr
fall of the year: autumn, esp the fishing season between the end of the spring and
summer fishery and Christmas.
[1776 (1792) CARTWRIGHT ii, 177 I
sent five hands in a skiff ... to look for the nets, which we lost there last fall.]
[1794] 1968 THOMAS 171 Numbers of Fishermen, at the Fall of the year (the 25th of
October) on their terms of serving being expired are paid the residue of their wages.
[1822] 1928 CORMACK 106 The fishery may be commenced here six weeks or a month earlier
than at any other part of the coast. and continued in the fall of the year until
Christmas. T 45/6-64 'Twas in the fall o' the year, she left to go to St John's in an
open boat ... and they got—breeze come on, they got drove off. T 43/4-64 They got no
boats, only flats or a canoe—kayak they call it. That's what they run the rivers
with and go back up the country in the fall o' the year. 1971 CASEY 233 When the evening
would begin to get long, or sometimes now a stormy day in the fall of the year when they
wouldn't be able to get out in boat and the weather would be too bad for spreading
fish... 1975 LEYTON 21 We used to keep sheep and three or four cows. We'd sell one of
them right late in the fall of the year, try to get a pair of boots for all hands.
2 Attrib, comb fall baiting: a quantity of bait-fish
used in the autumn cod-fishery. See BAITING.
fall fish:
cod-fish, large and fat, caught in the autumn with hook-and-line (1966 FARIS 236).
1842 BONNYCASTLE ii, 189 A quintal of fall fish, or
best cod £0/12/6. 1850 [FEILD] 87 Nor the 'fall-fish' with
autumn's showers await...
fall fishery: the cod-fishery
prosecuted between the end of the spring and summer fishery and Christmas.
1916 LENCH 15 We have ... the Fall fishery which (lasts for seven
or eight weeks and is] not over till close near Christmas. 1933 Nfld Royal Commission
Report 99 The fishery in the fall is not conducted by means of traps (since the fish
do not run quite so close to shore, and in any case the weather is too stormy for traps)
but by motor-boats using bultows, long lines with hooks set at intervals in the sea-flow.
This fishery produces the best fish, since in the fall the fish have recovered from the
effects of the spawning season and have been fattened by their summer diet. Their texture
is firm and thick and their livers are rich in oil. T 141/69-652 We fishermen
always looked at the fishery as two seasons: there's the caplin scull season and the
fall's fishery. If we lose our caplin scull fishery, if that was bad, look out for a
fall's fishery: we'm going to have a booming fall. But if we have a big summer, we have a
poor fall. 1980 Evening Telegram 6 Aug, p. 6 It depends on how the fall fishery
will go and if there is more salt required then we can get it.
fall fishing: the autumn cod-fishery.
1973 HORWOOD 9 And so it was not long before he could speak the
Lambert tongue. Mr Lambert was an inshore fisherman, he owned boats and fishing gear and
was just about to begin the fall fishing.
fall herring:
herring taken in coastal waters in the autumn.
1842 JUKES i,
228 These are succeeded by the 'fall herrings,' as they are called, or the autumnal
herring-shoals. 1873 CARROLL 38 Many and various were the opinions
given ... as to the best possible mode of preserving the Spring, Summer, and Fall
Herrings that resort to this Island. 1883 HATTON & HARVEY 324 The Fall herring is the
marketable fish, and it is then that they are taken on the Labrador coast, where they
appear early in September. P 243-56 ~ Particularly fat [Labrador] herring of the late
fishing season.
fall run: autumn migration of seals in
coastal waters. See also RUN n.
1909 BROWNE 56 This [seal] fishery
is carried on from May to June 10 (spring 'Run'), and from 20th November to 10th December
(fall 'run').
fall trip: in the Bank fishery, autumn
fishing voyage for cod.
1845 Journ of Assembly Appendix, p.
231 [The English Bankers proceeded] to the Labrador the summer months, and upon their
return, again went on the Banks for the fall trip. 1960 FUDGE 18 All of my men went home
for a few days, after which we prepared for the fall trip.
fall
voyage: see fall fishery above. See also VOYAGE.
1964
Daily News 22 July, p. 4 The fall voyage can compensate for a poor trapping
season. 1966 FARIS 34-5 The fishery further offshore—with nets, trawls and hand
lines—is called the 'fall voyage.'
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