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barrasway
[< Cdn F barachoix, barachois]
Nfld Dial.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
Atlantic Provinces.
See: barachois(def. 1)
Quotations
1842
There was a shallow salt lake at the back of the harbour that filled at the rise of the tide, and was called by the people a Barrasway. This was a very common term for a shallow marshy inlet or salt lake along the south coast of Newfoundland. It is spelt in the French charts Barachois, and is, I conclude, a Norman word.
1963
BARRISWAY, n. a lagoon at a river mouth.