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drying-beach
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a beach for curing the catch taken by fishermen engaged in the dry fishery.
See: dry fishery
Quotations
1965
. . . it was not until 1662 that France established a military, naval, and commercial base at Placentia which was said to offer the best drying-beach in Newfoundland.