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bark n Cp OED ~ sb1 1 b 'rind of trees used as material in
tanning' (1565-1716); DAE n1 (1694 quot); ~ tub (1662).
1 Liquid made by steeping the bark and 'buds' of conifers to
preserve fish-nets, sails, etc.
[1832] 1981 Them Days vi
(3), p. 40 Let the two large boats downe on their sides in order to trim them tomorrow
and got the pots in order to begin boiling bark. [1886] LLOYD 55 [When the hair of the
skins has been removed] the denuded skins are treated to a pickle bath over night, whence
they are removed and placed in a preparation of bark. They remain in the bark for a week,
and finally are dried in the sun. 1895 J A Folklore viii, 36 The word bark ...
is only used as a noun to denote the tan which the fisherman applies to his net and
sails, and as a verb to denote such an application of it. Thus he will say, 'I have been
getting some juniper or black spruce rind to make tan bark.' T 141/67-65
You'd heave in your buds and you'd boil them for three hours, and you dip off that bark
then. T 172/5-65 When the bark was strong enough, you'd put your linnet into the
puncheons and dip the bark out o' the pot and put it in the puncheons.
2 Comb bark boiling: preparation of a preservative
for nets, sails, etc, from the bark and buds of spruce or fir trees.
1966 SCAMMELL 37 Sid nodded. 'Ours is too,' Bert said. 'Finished
bark boiling last week.' M 69-7 Another important activity in this season was bark
boiling. Here cod traps and nets were pushed into large pots of boiling bark water that
rested over open fires. The nets were allowed to stay in the bark for perhaps half an
hour. They were then pulled out, placed on hand bars and carried along to fences or rocks
where they were spread out to dry.
bark pot: iron cauldron
in which an infusion of 'bark' is prepared; TAN POT.
[1952] 1965
PEACOCK (ed) i, 130 "For the Fish We Must Prepare": Oh tar-mops and bark-pots, / And
fishin' caplin to the rocks. T 50/1-64 He gaffled a big bark pot, an iron bark pot for
boiling bark in, for the twine. T 172/5-65 We had a 60-gallon bark pot. You had to pick
those buds off of the tops [of the trees] and put those buds into this bark pot, and when
he'd boil, and that steep out, that was the way you barked your trap. 1967 Bk of
Nfld iv, 241 The bark pots were huge iron pots for barking and tanning linnet. Q
67-13 [riddle] 'Four legs up cold as stone / Two legs down flesh and bone / The head of
the living and the mouth of the dead / Tell me the riddle and I'll go to bed.' This
riddle referred to a man walking with a bark pot on his head.
bark tub: wooden container in which nets, sails, etc, are
immersed in an infusion of conifer 'buds' as a preservative (P 148-61).
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