sun n Cp OED weather-gall; EDD ~ sb 1 (24) ~ hound.
Comb, cpd sun burn: discoloration and breaking of salted cod through excessive exposure to the sun in drying.
1953 Nfld Fish Develop Report 59 The producers have little control over the quality of their product. In most cases their operations are adversely affected by the weather, which causes 'sun-burn' (skin heating), dampness or 'slime' and, indirectly, over-salting. T 36-64 There'd be a spot on un here or a broken fin on un there, or a bit o' sunburn on the back or something like that.
Hence sunburn v: of salt cod, to become discoloured and broken in texture through excessive exposure to the sun in curing; BURN. Freq as sunburned, sunburnt p ppl: of cod-fish and sealskins.
[1749] 1755 DOULGASS i, 302 No sun-burnt, saltburnt, or that have been a considerable time pickled before dried, are to be deemed merchantable fish. 1819 ANSPACH 440 [Fish] is also liable to become sun-burnt, when spread out on a hot calm day, whether on flakes or on beaches. 1873 CARROLL 33 The first evil is, that if the weather ... is fine and the sun shines out strongly [the sealskins] are sure to be sun burnt. 1924 ENGLAND 232 [The seal] also revealed traces of being 'sunburned' as a result of riding the ice. Its skin was exceedingly soft. 1957 Nfld Qtly Sep, p. 4 'Look here, see this? Every one sunburnt on the backs.' He showed where [the cod] had been split with too much sun. T 43-64 Every year you'd have to renew the boughs [on the flake]—you couldn't have your fish resting on the wood because it would sunburn and spoil. T 170-65 Broken an' sunburnt [fish] was sold down in the West Indies. That's why 'twas called cullage.
sun-gall: sun-dog; bright gleams in vicinity of the sun.
C 66-5 Sun-galls means it is going to blow hard.
sun hound: see sun-gall; WIND HOUND.
1924 ENGLAND 245-6 The sun ... glowed through a shining mist that blued the pinnacles with evanescent marvels of colour, and as the sun died, it gave up its ghost in a miracle of beauty that took a form known to us of warmer seas. 'Sun hounds,' the sealers call such spectacles. Sinking through mists, the sun projected itself gradually in duplicated spheres. Down from its flattened disk, and up and sideways, it flung rosy hands so that a flaming cross glowed against the west. 1937 DEVINE 70 When the yellow streamers called 'sun hounds' surround the sun after its rising and extend right down to the surface of the ocean the fishermen say: 'The sun is drawing water and that a storm is pending.' C 65-4 The old man commented on the sun hounds in the sky—red balls of cloud that may appear before or after the setting sun.
