grand a DC grand banks (1935-); Fisheries of U S (1887), pp. 129 ff.
Comb grand bank(s): large area of shoal water southeast of Newfoundland forming a rich fishing-ground; BANK, GREAT ~ . Also attrib.
[1794] 1968 THOMAS 173 A Fisherman who works in a Banker on the Grand Bank has a most laborous life of it... I can find none bad enough for comparison. 1909 GRENFELL2 (ed) 294 There is little doubt that the cod does not travel far in its annual migration. After spawning, the school simply moves out into deeper water on the slopes of the continental plateau or on the Grand Banks. 1960 FUDGE 36 I have been fishing in small boats since I was eleven years of age, and in the large Grand Bank vessels since I was seventeen years of age. 1969 Christmas Mumming in Nfld 10 [The Labrador Current] brushes the northeast coast of the Island, and then turns in a gigantic clockwise motion around the eastern tip. As it turns, it meets the warm waters of the eastward-bound Gulf Stream, and their union occurs over the shoal waters of the Grand Banks. 1978 Evening Telegram 27 Apr, p. 1 The most damaging overfishing would be on the eastern reaches of the Grand Banks off Newfoundland.
grand banker: fisherman engaged in the offshore or 'bank fishery'; BANKER 2; BANK FISHERMAN.
1971 NOSEWORTHY 16 The erection of a Fishermen's Museum on Marine Drive will ensure that the lives and achievements of the 'Grand Bankers' of the past will not be forgotten and the heritage they have passed on to their descendants will never be lost.
grand bay: the waters of the Gulf of St Lawrence and the Strait of Belle Isle.
[1583] 1940 Gilbert's Voyages & Enterprises i, 398 [Hayes' narrative] So again Tuesday the 30 of July (seven weekes after) we got sight of land, being immediately embayed in the Grand Bay, or some other great bay. [1708 OLDMIXON 9 There are abundance of other Bays round about the Western Shore, as far as the Great Bay, and many more between that and Trinity Bay.] 1895 PROWSE 43 [The headquarters of the Basque whale fishery] were in the gulf and straits known in those ancient times as the Grand Bay. 1937 LUBBOCK 128 The first Greenland whale is said to have been killed in Grand Bay, Newfoundland, hence the name of Grand Bay Whale.
grand goose: great skua (Catharacta skua skua) (1951 PETERS & BURLEIGH 219).
