black a Cp DARE black ice n 1 (1944-), PRATT ~ 1 for sense 1; Anglo-Manx Dialect for phr black stranger in sense 2; DARE ~ fly (1776-) for cpd in sense 4.
   2 1989 Evening Telegram 14 June, p. 2 She also criticized Newfoundlanders for the way they raise their children. 'The child was nothing. The blackest kind of stranger could come off the street and he would be treated better.' 1990 Sunday Telegram 11 Feb, p. 5 I remember the [Catholic] religious pageantry, the uniforms, the dedicated nuns and the special feeling of being different from the 'black' Protestants.
   3 T 437-65 'Well' he said 'old man I was just aimin' at a black shot o' ducks' he says 'in th' other world.' P 278-87 The men just home from the lumber camps are black ardent, the women say.
   4 In names: black bawk, ~ bird, ~ fly, ~ marling spike: pomarine jaeger.
   1986 FELTHAM 94 The sooty shearwater, or 'black bawk'...could dive down to the trawls if they were set in shallow water. 1987 MONTEVECCHI & TUCK 243 Blackbird. European starling. [1847] 1986 BAYFIELD ii, 320 Lieut. Hancock returned with face swelled, and eyes nearly closed from the bites of Black Flies & 'Gally nippers.' 1988 Evening Telegram 2 June, p. 13 'Take lots of insect repellent,' she said, 'the black flies will attack you by the millions.' [1879] 1987 MONTEVECCHI & TUCK 239 Black marling spike. Pomarine jaeger.
   6 Comb black ball.
   1984 KELLAND 180 The [dory] buoys carried flags, usually circular in shape, which were commonly called black balls, as in most cases they were painted black with a white oversized dot in the center, on those white centers were painted numbers which corresponded with the numbers on the bows of the dories that carried them.

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