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fish stage
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 — North
a platform of poles on which fish are hung to dry.
See: drying stage(def. 2)
Quotations
1792
We soon after rounded out a deep Bay, on the West side of which we saw a great number of fish stages erected from the ground in a slanting manner, for the purpose of exposing the fish fastened to them to the most advantageous aspect for, drying.
1818
We also perceived great quantities of stinking fish and bones lying scattered about their wigwams; together with canoes, and large fish-stages.
1939
The frozen white-fish . . . hung on fish-stages, high platforms made out of reach of the dogs
2 — Nfld
a waterside shed for gutting, heading, and salting fish to be dried on flakes.
Quotations
1910
Half-way to the fish stage . . . Jimmie Grimm came to a startled full stop.
1963
. . . past the crazy legs of the wharves and fish stages and a clutch of tidy salt-box houses, fading finally into the bare and brooding hills.