fisherman n
   Attrib, comb fisherman's basket: (a) pitcher-plant (Sarracenia purpurea) (1956 ROULEAU 30); (b) slipperwort (Calceolaria) (Q 72-1).
   fisherman's brewis: cod-fish cooked with hard tack or sea biscuit and pork fat. See also BREWIS, FISH AND BREWIS.
   T 80/2-64 He keeps up the old tradition. Every Sunday morning—fisherman's brewis, just as regular as the mornin's comes. P 9-73 A recipe for fisherman's brewis, schooner-style, for five or six hungry men: two cakes of hard bread per man, two plump codfish with head off and entrails removed, one piece of fatback pork. 1978 Evening Telegram 7 Aug, p. 4 [He] promises [visitors to Bonavista] a parade, races and feeds of fisherman's brewis. 1979 TIZZARD 278 In the boat sometimes my father carried a cooking pot and a frying pan, and with that a piece of fat back pork in the bread box. This meant that he could have fish and brewis or fisherman's brewis, whichever was preferable... The pork would be fried out in the frying pan. When the codfish was cooked the brewis and pork fat would all be thrown in the pot together and mashed up, thus making fisherman's brewis.
   fisherman's holiday: (a) a holiday to mark the end of the fishing season in the autumn and the return of the migratory vessels to England; (b) enforced cessation from fishing because of storms.
   1888 Colonist Christmas No 10 In this capacity [the naval officer] erected in that harbour four forts and mounted one of them ... with six cannon. Here [c1770] on Fishermen's Holiday, Coughlan drilled his men. 1909 BROWNE 252 [After the gale there] was a 'fishermen's holiday.' 1917 Christmas Echo 19 ... regret for the prosperous fisheries and good old times gone bye; for the rude but hearty cheer that enlivened the walls of a cookroom on a fisherman's holiday, and above all for the chorus and song of the blithe Corkman. 1933 GREENLEAF (ed) 243 "The Crowd of Bold Sharemen" is said to have been composed about fifteen years ago by a group of young fellows from Little Bay Islands on the East Coast, while they were having fisherman's holidays, i.e. were storm-bound, down on the French Shore. 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, and all that sort of thing. It would be more or less what they call a fisherman's holiday.
   fisherman-planter: a fisherman and owner of fishing premises, boat or small vessel who, supplied by a merchant, engages a crew to work on the share system; PLANTER.
   1888 Colonist Christmas No 10 Sims himself ... was a fine specimen of the fisherman-planter. 1976 CASHIN 1 Grandfather Richard Cashin was a fisherman planter in his settlement, and Grandfather Pierre Mullowney was also a fisherman planter, as well as being one of the most successful sealing skippers of his time. 1977 BURSEY 87 The Lobelia must be brought so near as possible to the small harbours where the fishermen planters were.
   fisherman's room: see ROOM.
   fisherman's trawl: see fisherman's basket above (Q 72-1).

Go Back