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1 [1622] 1982 CELL (ed) Whitbourne's Discourse: [They] spent aboue twenty dayes...in building of their Stages, and other large necessary roomes there, to split, salt and dry their fish in. 1984 Evening Telegram 22 Dec, p. 6 My brother and I...cleaned our small catch--headed, gutted and split the fish, washed them in a 'dredge-barrow,' salted them away. 1987 FIZZARD 129 'I split with Reub...for eight years.'
