sunker n O Sup2 ~ (1880-) Nfld.
1 [1977] 1985 LEHR & BEST (eds) 160 "The Ravenal": She may have struck a sunker, but such things we'll never know;/We only know her eighteen men died in the waters cold. 1983 WARNER 25 In many places, just outside the churn of the surf, were rocky half-tide ledges--'sunkers,' they call them in Newfoundland's lugubrious maritime vocabulary--on which the seas broke heavily. 1987 FIZZARD 56 Finally, ahead of them lay a small island, not much more than a rock, with a string of sunkers near the shore.
