southerner n
1 Inhabitant of the south coast of Newfoundland, esp one who fishes on the Grand Banks; BANK FISHERMAN.
1920 WALDO 83 The 'Southerners' go to the Grand Banks for their fishing; the others go to the Labrador.
2 Fisherman of the northeast coast of Newfoundland who migrates north for the summer fishery on the Labrador; FLOATER, STATIONER.
[c1945] TOBIN 9 "The Lighthouse": Near the busy turn of the century... /When 'the Southerners,' in spring and fall, / Put store clerks on the hustle. 1909 BROWNE 271 The ledges here were the favorite fishing grounds of Captain Nathan Norman of Brigus, a celebrated sealer, who was one of the first southerners to locate north of Hamilton Inlet, having settled at Indian Harbor, about 1835. 1909 GRENFELL2 (ed) 79 November. The last of the southerners leave.
3 Inhabitant of the southern coast of the Labrador Peninsula.
[1918-19] GORDON 48 The Southerners do not look after their dogs like the Northerners.
