|
coast n DC ~ n 2 (1861-) for sense 1.
1
The shore-line of North America from Blanc Sablon to Cape Chidley, esp the areas of
settlement and fishing; shortened form of coast of Labrador (see LABRADOR 1).
[1771] 1935 Can Hist Rev xvi, 57 Heathberrys and baking
apples ... are plenty all over the coast. 1774 Trans Roy Soc lxiv, 373 With a
small vessel, and having an Indian with me, who knew of every rock and shoal upon the
coast, I was enabled to be accurate in my observations. 1861 DE BOILIEU 58 [I was one
day] in conversation with an old man who had resided on the coast fifty years. 1952
BANFILL 151 Coast mothers and wives have to face many stern realities with fortitude and
calmness.
2 Attrib coast fishery: cod-fishery
carried out in coastal waters; SHORE1: ~ FISHERY.
1839
TUCKER 83-4 The Coast and Labrador Fisheries are prosecuted in vessels of
from 40 to 120 tons burthen, carrying a number of men, according to their respective
sizes, in about the same proportion as the vessels on the Banks. 1870 Stewart's
Qtly iv, 10-11 [France] does not care nearly so much for the coast fishery as for the
bank fishery... It is probable that the quantity of fish caught by the French on the
shores of Newfoundland, as distinct from the banks, does not exceed 100,000
quintals annually.
Go Back
|
