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1 1984 KELLAND 10 'Store' in this instance did not mean a shop, but a building set apart from the dwelling house. It was usually equipped with a long work bench, which in turn was outfitted with all varieties of carpenter's tools necessary for men who were engaged in the fisheries. 1987 POOLE 71 In the meantime I bought two stores from a fisherman in Petty Harbour, who had retired from the fishery. These two stores were large and had been a business place when my father was a boy.
2 Comb ~ keeper, ~ loft.
1985 Nfld Qtly lxxx (3), 22 One report suggests that the main winter occupants of Trinity consisted of 'store keepers' and servants of the merchant firms without a woman or child among them. 1987 POWELL 38 So I went back and there in the store loft, in a little room, were lots of motors from 3-horsepower to 8-horsepower.
