checkerboard

Maritimes

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1958 quote.

Quotations

1916

The two of them had scarce shipped the checkerboards to receive the fish before the weather dory had an oar up.

1958

[The raft] was a crude, makeshift affair, made up of checker boards (wooden bins used for dressing the fish) and floats salvaged from the trawls.