DCHP-3

Grand Banks

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the extensive shoals, or bank (def. 1), lying southeast of Newfoundland, famous as cod-fishing grounds.

See: bank ((1)) ((n.))(def. 1),Banks(def. 2),Great Banks

Quotations

1935
To the south and east of the island [Newfoundland] one hundred miles or so lies the famous Great Grand Bank . . . some eighty thousand square miles in area. . . .
1962
Doughty Nova Scotian sailors loaded their schooners with codfish from the Newfoundland Grand Banks and timber from the forests of the Maritimes. . . .