skirt n
1 A long, narrow stretch of floating ice-pans; SKEIN, STRING.
1842 JUKES i, 318 There was no ice to windward of us but this thin skirt about a mile broad, which was marked into small round pieces about a foot wide, forming a perfect mosaic pavement on a gigantic scale. 1882 TALBOT 20 We passed in and out through skirts ot ice.
2 The vertical 'wall' or 'side' of a cod-trap.
T 194/5-65 There couldn't be no more herring into un than what was into un. An' they was meshed in the vees, meshed in the skirts. There was nobody reached over to take hold the skirts o' the trap.
3 Attrib skirt line, ~ rope: rope forming the edge of sections of netting on each side of the entrance to a cod-trap or salmon-net (Q 67-34).
