shalloway n also sherway. Cp DE LA MORANDIÈRE iii, 1377 charroy 'chaloupe de service servant ... à assurer le transport des hommes et du matériel d'un endroit à l'autre dans le havre'; DC ~ (Nfld: 1774-). A type of vessel used originally by the French and then by the English in the offshore fishery, esp in collecting fish from smaller craft and transporting it to shore for curing.
[1676] 1895 PROWSE 206 No Indians come [to Placentia] but some Canida Indians from the forts of Canida in french shallowayes. [1 7..] 1976 HEAD 185 [Grand Bank's] Tide harbour very good for Shalloways and Beech enough for 30 boats fishing. [1715] ibid 73 This has been but lately experimented, I think last year was the first of it, that the sending these small shalloways, sloops and other kind of vessels to the Banks for fish, and when loading is caught to come in and cure them. [1715] ibid 80 Our boats are not sizeable for that service, for our fishing ledges, not lying above a mile or two, from our harbours' mouth, our boats are built accordingly, but the ledges of that port lying 8 or 10 leagues off [Placentia] the French were obliged to build a larger sort called shalloways, fitted with a deck, that can keep the sea five or six days for a loading. [1727] 1910 GLEDHILL 120-1 By Sherways Boats & Skifts... To the Hire of a Sherway, Sholloops &c Licenses. [1772] 1971 SEARY 278 Shalloway Point. [1774] 1792 CARTWRIGHT ii, 14 Hooper's shalloway having sprung her foremast, when she was out with Captain Scott, I sent the boat-builder to make her a new one. 1937 Seafisheries of Nfld 22 The shalloways were open boats that are now called punts. 1951 Nfld & Lab Pilot i, 111 Herring cove is entered between Cat and Shalloway islands but affords no shelter.
