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Labradorman
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a Newfoundland fisherman who summers on the Labrador coast, spending the winters at home.
Quotations
1905
Withal, the Labradormen are of a simple, God-fearing, clean-lived, hardy race of men.
1935
Mid-June sees the Labradorman setting sail from his home port on the northern coast of Newfoundland.
2n.
a resident or native of Labrador.
Quotations
1918
Labrador is owned by Newfoundland, so that legally the Labradormen are Newfoundlanders, though they have no representation in the Newfoundland Government.
1933
It is something that has to do with their Labradorman's code that says, "I am not tired, I am not hungry, I am steel."
3n.
a fishing vessel of a Labradorman (def. 1).
See: Labradorman(def. 1)
Quotations
1905
. . . in a week--two weeks or three--the last of the Labradormen have gone "down north."
1964
. . . sharemen were and are sometimes chargeable . . . when a Labradorman's voyage of fish has to be "made," i.e. sun dried, by the planters.