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foreign av OED ~ 13 naut colloq (1844) for sense 1; OED 14 (1863)
for sense 2.
1 Phr go foreign/use foreign, etc: to sail
overseas; to employ a vessel in overseas trade.
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141/64-652 I suppose he didn't go foreign, but he used to drive away on a
foreign ocean, an' pick hisself up an' get back to Newfoundland again. 1975 BUTLER 51
Wakely got the Jean Wakely built two years after that up in Nova Scotia to use
foreign.
2 Comb foreign-going.
1845
Journ of Assembly Appendix, p. 233 The colliers in the coasting trade employ a
large number of sailors; which, together with all our Foreign going ships, give ... a
supply of seamen for the navy. 1894 MOTT 171 [Duder] owns over two hundred sail of
fishing and foreign going vessels, besides a large number of boats and skiffs. 1900
PROWSE 100 The Merchant Shipping Act of 1894 ... consolidates the law relating to
merchant shipping and becomes the law of this colony with reference to our foreign-going
ships. [1929] 1933 GREENLEAF 235 Mr Noftall said that the maid of Newfoundland came from
Conception Bay, and that the composer was Captain Duer of St John's a 'foreign-going'
captain, who ought to know what he's talking about when he mentions all the other girls
of the world! 1936 SMITH 152 Mr Hiscock loaded three foreign-going vessels, which sailed
direct from the coast. 1960 Evening Telegram 11 Aug, p. 7 John Rourke had three
foreign-going vessels, one of these was the brigantine Shamrock built at Carbonear
by the master ship-builder of his day, Michael Kearney. 1973 HORWOOD 14 Now the owners
planned to send her back into coasting again. Harry didn't want to go, paid off and
looked around for a foreign-going berth. P 245-74 They might go to Liverpool and get
their foreign-going tickets. 1977 BURSEY 85 [He] had been a foreign going seaman.
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