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1 1985 QUIGLEY 72 Most every night there would be a dance in one community, one place, one community another night. Like all around the shore.
3 Attrib, comb ~ crew, ~ crowd: those who unload and process the catch of fish ashore, ~ fast(ener), ~ fish, ~ fisherman, ~ fishery, ~ liner: a railway branch-line serving the coastal settlements of Conception Bay: shore train, ~ skipper: also, a wife who keeps a fisherman's accounts, ~ train: see ~ liner.
1987 FIZZARD 216 [When the trawler returns to port] the men are then relieved of their duties for a forty-eight hour period. The shore crew begin unloading the fish aided by huge vacuum hoses. 1986 SIDER 21 Male kinsmen crewed the boats; women, kin to these men, were the core of the 'shore crowd' that 'made' the fish cure. 1987 POWELL 30 One day...we went to the Cape Shore to look at the salmon nets, John Campbell had his man, Edward Cadwell, landed on the edge of a cliff to tie on the shore fastener. This was the rope to which the salmon net was tied. 1988 MOMATIUK & EASTCOTT (eds) 153 All the shore-fasts were out and the lead ropes, so I just had to row the net out there, tie it on and put out one grapelin. 1986 RYAN xxi The fishermen who fished near their homes around the island were expected to produce a light-salted, hard-dried product referred to as shore fish. 1987 Evening Telegram 10 Oct, p. 7 If the French are permitted to catch northern cod it will not make much difference to (east coast) shore fishermen because, even without the French catching any northern cod, the shore fishermen who are left are facing ruin. 1984 KELLAND ix-x The terms as they were used by Canadians and Newfoundlanders in days gone by presented two different meanings. When Newfoundlanders referred to the shore fishery they meant that the men who were engaged at the industry were fishing from shore-based premises, not from a schooner; whereas when Canadians used the term inshore fishery it meant that the undertaking was being carried out by men who fished on grounds near the shore, not on the farflung Banks. 1984 Evening Telegram 21 Sep, p. 4 The morning train, or the shoreliner, as those who worked the Carbonear branch line called her, left the St John's station at Water Street West Thursday, 9:30 a.m., carrying passengers for the last time. 1988 NADEL-KLEIN & DAVIS (eds) 211 The shore skipper's fishery-related role is also active and instrumental. She keeps the books and accounts for her seabound husband's vessel and acts as his onshore agent. [1935] 1985 Evening Telegram 27 Dec, p. 6 The shore train which went out on Christmas Eve to Carbonear in charge of Conductor Lee was crowded with passengers. The run from St John's to Carbonear occupies three hours and fifteen minutes. [1939] 1989 ibid 25 Feb, p. 4 Forty sealers from Bay Roberts and Brigus arrived by the shore train at 11:30 this morning to join the SS Ranger which will sail for the Gulf on Tuesday next.
