floater n
   1 1984 KELLAND 112 The men who fished [on the Labrador] from schooners were known as floaters. 1988 Evening Telegram 18 May, p. 19 Floaters were the other type of fishermen who spent summers on the Labrador coast, following the fish in schooners, which served as a work place, home, and storage area.
   2 1987 POWELL 74 The Labrador Coast was a vanishing frontier [in the 1940s]. The same went for the sailing fleet, known as the floaters.
   5 Attrib ~ fleet: see sense 2 above.
   1987 POWELL 71 Then there was what they called the floater fleet which sailed up to Labrador from Conception Bay, Trinity Bay, Bonavista Bay and Notre Dame Bay.

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