sunken p ppl OED ~ ppl a 1 (1743 quot for sunken rock).
Comb sunken pound: framework of heavy logs or beams, filled with rocks, forming the crib of a wharf or 'stage'; POUND (P 121-67).
sunken rock: submerged rock over which the sea breaks; BREAKER, HARRY, SUNKER.
[c1756] 1927 DOYLE (ed) 35 "Wadham's Song": But N.N.W. 7 or 8 miles / Lies a sunken rock near the Barracks Isles. 1774 [LA TROBE] 7 They were obliged, on account of storms, to run into bays between numberless islands and sunken rocks, with which this coast abounds. [1786] 1792 CARTWRIGHT iii, 209 There was a great sea along shore; the sunken rocks in the bay broke very high. 1837 BLUNT 14 Take care to keep the point of Ferryland Head open to the eastward of Bois, by which means you will avoid a sunken rock having only 2 fathoms water over it. 1866 WILSON 20 St Shotts [is] the most dangerous place on the whole coast; dangerous not because of either sunken rocks or shoal water, but because of the irregular current and undertow. 1915 Nfld Qtly Oct, p. 32 We went in over a sunken rock and the jib-boom landed on the cliff at Mistaken Point. 1951 Nfld & Lab Pilot i, 193 Puddy rock; Uncle Joe rock, awash, Outside rock, above-water, and Sunken rock, with a depth of less than 6 feet over it. T 141/69-652 An' them sunken rocks was breakin', every cast. 1975 BUTLER 115 About three quarters of a mile up the shore there is a sunken rock that comes above water about half a cable length from the shore.
sunken wharf: see sunken pound; BALLAST n: ~ WHARF.
1837 Journ of Assembly 452 That bridge is necessarily 320 feet long upon eleven sunken wharves. 1976 GUY 107 If fish are scarce, you can pick some wrinkles (snails) off the rocks or the sunken wharves and crack them.
