southern a, av
1 In Labrador and northern Newfoundland, of or relating to the northeast coast and the Avalon Peninsula.
[1912] 1930 COAKER 68 The improved cure of fish is about the most pressing matter now facing the Colony, and I regret that the Southern fishermen and business men failed to grasp the importance of establishing a standard cull for fish. 1942 Little Bay Islands 14 He made the cod-trap out of his cod-seine after seeing codtraps being used on the Labrador by fishermen of the southern bays. 1971 CASEY 153 The 'Southern people,' that is, the summer fishing crews who came to Pillier and North-East Crouse from Conception and Notre Dame Bays...
2 Phr go southern: to sail southward.
1924 ENGLAND 228 They better go suddren [south] again, pick up a few scattered hoods, an' burn down for the night. T 23-64 There was two more vessels come out of Gibraltar when we did, going to St John's; and they went away southern and we come over western and took a gale of wind.
3 Comb southern coast: south coast of Newfoundland from Cape Ray to Cape Race.
1874 Maritime Mo iii, 205 A clergyman here assures me that when he resided at Lamaline, on the Southern Coast, in the winter of 1870, the bodies of two cuttles were cast ashore,
southern patch: concentration of harp or hooded seals breeding on the ice-floes off the northeast coast of Newfoundland. Cp NORTHERN PATCH.
1905 CHAFE 7 Because of this unusual condition the most of the captains that sailed from northern ports were baffled in their attempts to locate the 'southern patch' of seals. 1924 ENGLAND 24 Some of the seals are scattered; some lie in immense patches... There is supposed to be a 'northern patch' and a 'southern patch,' but discussion about this is endless and sterile.
southern shore: (a) see southern coast; (b) coast of the Avalon Peninsula from Cape Spear to Cape Race.
1708 OLDMIXON 6 [The French] were suffer'd in his time first to settle on the Southern Shoar of Newfoundland, to fortify themselves at Placentia, St Peter's, and other Places. 1874 Maritime Mo iii. 210 Lamaline, on the southern shore. 1936 DEVINE 51 The founder of the firm was to all intents a practical fisherman himself, and in practical work laid the foundation of his business at Renews on the Southern Shore. 1909 MOWAT 4 Two days later he informed me that he had found the perfect vessel. She was, he said, a small two-masted schooner of the type known generally as a jackboat and, more specifically, as a Southern Shore bummer.
southern turr: Atlantic common murre (Uria aalge aalge) (1959 MCATEE 39).
