summer n
2 1988 MOMATIUK & EASTCOTT (eds) 124 Mike was 3 when he first went down to Labrador. He spent 67 summers there, never missed one.
4 Designating a structure: ~ house.
1987 POWELL 50 Many of their summer houses were built on the rugged coast which was little more than one huge ice cap for seven months of the year. The people would shift to those places along the coast mainly to hunt sea birds and seals.
5 Attrib, comb ~ fish, ~ fishery, ~ mole, ~ servant: see SERVANT1 n, ~ voyage: see VOYAGE n 1.
[1714] 1987 FIZZARD 24 All the planters and servants [are] bringing their furs and summer fish to sell for purchasing their winter provisions and necessaries. P 245-87 'There, at Norman Bay [Labrador], they live in winter until it's time to go out to the coast for the summer fishery.' 1985 A Yaffle of Yarns 7 Even his freckles (which I, like all my Winterton people, used to call 'summer-moles') seemed to light up and glisten. 1987 FIZZARD 54 It was during [the French and English war of 1778] that for the first time there were more Newfoundland servants than English summer servants engaged in the fishery. 1983 WARNER 28 Even the few dory fishermen who still row out to jig the cod will all have a good summer voyage.
