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barrow1 n also bar, barry [phonetics unavailable]. Cp
OED ~ sb3 1 (1300-1535). See also DRAFT BARROW, HAND-BARROW.
1 A flat, rectangular wooden frame with handles at each end
for two men to carry cod-fish, seal 'pelts' and other bulky materials; specif such a
frame used in weighing seal pelts and dried cod; FISH BARROW.
1613
Willoughby Papers 1/10, 66 I tooke som thing Sharp unto him and have mak him cary
the barry with me and Torne fishe as I have done. 1818 CHAPPELL 128 In this state the
fish continue for a few days; when they are again taken, in barrows, to a sort of
wooden box, full of holes, which is suspended from the stage in the sea. [c1830] 1890
GOSSE 58 One of the crew that has climbed up begins to lay [the seal pelts] one by one,
fur downward, on the barrow; singing out, as he lays down each,
'One-two-three-four-tally.' 1904 Nfld Qtly Dec, p. 17 The paraphernalia of a
fisherman's craft, hooks and lines, sails and twines, bultows and barrows, and nets...
[1914] 1930 COAKER 85 The Trading Co. had prepared for storing [and] the scales, barrows,
etc had been made ready. 1937 DEVINE 53 [The jig is] the swinging frame part of the
scales on which a barrow of fish is placed in weighing. T 141/67-652 You take
your barrer—your barrer—o' linnet—and fill in your tub about half full. T
192/3-65 They'd yaffle so much [fish] and throw [it] up to get enough for the weight to
make the draft on the bar, and then there'd be, 'Yaffle at hand!' 1975 BUTLER 70 The fish
was put on the barrow, weighed, packed in the drum, put under the fish screw.
2 Comb barrow-tub: wooden tub or half barrel with handles
attached for two men to carry.
P 148-62 A barrow tub is a half
barrel for salt. P 144-74 In the morning, the salt fish were brought from the stage in
'barra tubs' and were spread face-up on the flake. 1977 Nfld Qtly Dec, p. 37 It
was more or less fun getting [the caplin], but the fun was all over when it came to
carrying them in the garden in barrow tubs, and spreading them on the potatoes and
covering them over.
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