sun n
1 In var phrases and proverbs: turn with (or towards) the sun, ~ is splitting the rocks, etc.
1916 Deep Sea Fishers xiii, [p. 162] [passing plates:] Everything must be passed 'with the sun.' 1937 DEVINE 59 A boat or schooner should be turned towards the sun. ibid 70 'When the sun is drawing water,/Better bide home with your wife and daughter.' P 330-89 'It was rainin', and when we got to La Manche Park, the sun was splittin' the rocks.'
2 Comb ~ burn.
1987 FIZZARD 149 'The crews of women were going back on the beaches after dinner to turn each fish so that not one would be sunburned.'
