shallop n also shalloppe, shollup. Cp OED ~ sb 1 (1578-), DAE (1611-); SMYTH 610 'small light fishing vessel' for sense 1.
1 A large, partly-decked boat, rigged with lug-sails and used in the cod and seal fisheries.
1612 Willoughby Papers 7 Oct [Guy's Journal] We departed from Harbor de Grace, [and] that nighte came to Greene bay, both the barke [and] the shalloppe. 1682 COLLINS 93 When the Shallops or Fishing Boats are full, they carry the Fish on Shore. [1711] 1895 PROWSE 272 Minister to have subscription for ensuing year from shollups, three, the two men boats, two, and the ship one quintol of dry merchandable fish to be levied. [1757] 1902 Christmas Bells 12 Petition of John Barrett, relating to six French prisoners running away with his shallop. [1766] 1971 BANKS 133 First then of the English method they use boats almost twice as large as the French Some of them being 40 feet in the Keel they are Calld here Shallops Rigged with a main mast & foremast & Lugsail & furnishd also with 4 oars 3 of which row on one side & the other which is twice as long as any of the rest Belays as they call it the other three. [1797] 1976 HEAD 222 Some of the Merchants from St John's and Trinity, had sent a few large Shallops [to Croque] in preference to the Banks; those that I met with had five Men in each Boat, and caught not less than forty Quintals, in less than twelve hours, fishing near the entrance of the Harbours. [1856] 1975 WHITELEY 126 Uncle John's shallop came up and went up the river. 1895 PROWSE 404 The shallop was a large boat, decked at both ends and open in the centre, with moveable deck boards and pounds; there were cuddies both fore and aft where the fishermen could sleep. There were never less than three men in a shallop; their dimensions were—30 to 40 feet keel, 10 to 40 feet beam; many of the larger shallops had five men, and would carry 200 qtls. dry fish. 1935 KEAN 128 The shallops appear to have all disappeared by 1806, and the seal fishery was then prosecuted in decked schooners.
2 Comb shallop(s) tub: wooden container, often a barrel sawn in half, used to hoist cod from boat to wharf, or, on runners, to haul fish in the 'stage'; TUB.
P 54-67 Shallop's tub [is] a flour barrel with about 1/3 its height cut off, used to receive split fish from the splitting table—2 of 'em roughly yield a quintal of fish when dried. Q 67-96 Shallop tub of fish: half barrel of fish. M 68-24 Shallop's tub: an ordinary pork barrel sawed off about two-thirds of its usual height, and used for hauling fish from the splitting table to the salt-pound. This type had wooden runners on it. It was also used, without runners, to hoist fish up the stage-head from the boat. Two of these tubs made one quintal (112 lbs) of fish.
