beach n Cp Seafisheries of Nfld (1937), pp. 50-1 for the operation of curing fish on beaches.
   1 Also: in phr build beaches (cp BAWN: make bawn), point of beach (place-names).
   1987 FIZZARD 116 The harbour was shallow except for an area opposite the 'Point of Beach,' where the present fish plant is located. ibid 139 Winter was also the season for building beaches. Merchants who were starting up operations or needing to expand their beaches, hired men to bring gravel from the natural beach to the flat grassy area nearby... The process was repeated until the new beach was at a depth of about two feet. The rate of pay for this work was about ten cents a barrel. P 245-90 'You'd just try to get a place on the beach' [curing cod].
   2 Attrib, comb beach racket, ~ rock, ~ room, ~ woman.
   1987 FIZZARD 132 'On the beaches the women take charge. Soon after Christmas the "beach racket," starts. The women wonder with whom they will be working this year. One woman is the boss and she has a crew of nine.' 1988 DOHANEY 46 'And that's as sure as God made beachrocks.' 1837 Royal Gazette Dec 5 [Ad] Together with spacious wharves with beach room for curing fish and mfg. oil. 1987 FIZZARD 159 Throughout the community...there was less and less demand for beach women, longshoremen, sail makers and all others whose livelihoods were tied to the bank fishery. P 245-90 'On the shore the job became the responsibility of the beach women.'

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