scotch a See Fisheries of U S 427 ff for herring combs.
Comb scotch apple: (a) juneberry; CHUCKLEY PEAR (Amelanchier spp) (1978 ROULEAU 93); (b) potato; see APPLE.
[1894-1929] 1960 BURKE (ed White) 36 "Sly Jackeen Sailor": Some stayed up all night for the order to fill, / Filling sacks with Scotch apples and worked with a will.
scotch barrel: locally-made wooden container for export of herring processed as 'scotch cure' (see below).
1918 FPU (Twillingate) Minutes 21 Mar The question was asked [whether] you could make scotch herring barrels on local trusses. His reply was that on scotch barrels he would have steel trusses.
scotch cure: a process, adopted from Scottish practice, employed to preserve herring by gutting and packing directly in barrels with salt; the herring so processed.
[1915] 1930 COAKER 103 The dimensions of packages for Scotch cure shall be... [1929] 1979 Evening Telegram 14 Dec, p. 5 The SS Sambro sailed from Lark Harbour yesterday for Halifax, taking ... 500 barrels of scotch cure and 530 barrels of split herring. 1953 Nfld Fish Develop Report 46 In the United States, and generally throughout North America ... the market for the traditional splits and 'Scotch'-cure has all but disappeared. 1966 PHILBROOK 48 We took on a number of different fish ... and used different kinds of processing: salt, drying, pickling and tinning. Herring, for instance, we used a scotch cure, local cure, kippering and pickling. P 243-75 In scotch cure the gills and intestinal tract of the herring are removed with a gibbing knife without splitting the belly; blood, milt and roe are left in. Then the herring are packed in barrels with less salt than in other cures. It's a slow cure.
scotch dumpling: kind of haggis made with cod-livers.
1975 The Rounder Sep, p. 12 It was common for fishermen on the Labrador to bake and eat the fresh livers [of cod] as a cure for night blindness. Livers form the main ingredient for 'Scotch Dumplings' which consist of cods' stomachs stuffed with chopped liver and cornmeal.
scotch herring: see scotch cure.
T 185-65 I went away from here when I was sixteen years of age, went to Halls Bay packin' Scotch herring.
scotch pack(ed): see scotch cure.
T 185-65 First I was workin' in Matthews' factory, [gibbin'] herring an' packin' herring—Scotch pack. 1977 BUTLER 23 Scotch packed herring were in good demand for the coming winter catch.
scotch poke: in shuffling cards, dealer's device to change luck of the draw.
P 108-70 When dealing cards, to change the luck the dealer sometimes gives the deck a poke from the end, pushing up the middle cards which he puts on top of the pack and then deals. This is a 'Scotch poke.'
