settling vbl n In designations of the date when a fisherman pays his account with the merchant who has advanced credit for the fishing enterprise or 'voyage': settling day, ~ season, ~ time.
1849 [FEILD] 98 Nearly all the men of the settlement had sailed this day [20 Sept] for Harbour Briton, the place we had just left, this being the great settling day of the yearly accounts at the merchants' establishment. 1891 Holly Branch 20 The 'settling season' was the proper time for marriages. This came in September. [1877] 1898 Nfld Law Reports 148 No objection seems to have been made as to this being the proper mode of settlement at settling time, but afterwards the plaintiff preferred a claim for a man's share of the whole fish taken by the cod-seine. 1981 Evening Telegram 19 Sep, p. 6 Christmas at Gaultois in its prime is something to recall: a four day trip in Garland's Trader at 'Settlin Time.'
