barasway n also barsway. For a similar eighteenth-century pronunciation of Fr -ois as -way, see shalloway (from charroy).
   1984 KELLAND 15 The barrisway...was an excellent area on whose waters young people both male and female could learn to row as well as sail boats. It is a miniature inland sea, completely landlocked with the exception of a narrow gut that connects it with the waters of the harbour and through which its tides rise and fall. 1985 Nfld Qtly lxxxi (1), 19 There was skating on the "barsway," a corruption of the French word barachois, meaning shallow inlet.

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