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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a beach lot, from which a fisherman may operate and where he may set up flakes and stages (def. 1).
Quotations
1713-14
In such case should the ships fishing rooms of that harbour be taken up before he arrives, they often remove some planter or other for him, pretending that the planter's title is not good to the room he possesses, when the commanders of men of war, some years before, adjudged it to be the said planter's right.
1824
Among the subjects requiring our most serious attention, and which we probably shall find the most difficult of adjustment, are the claims for fishing rooms, or beach lots.
1952
The places of business, fishing rooms, stages and flakes are close along the water's edge separated from the houses by a narrow, winding and often rough and grass grown road which, however, does not extend beyond the settlement.
1965
Placentia saw the coming of a British garrison; and British officers purchased from their withdrawing French counterparts, the ownership of the best fishing-rooms in the harbour.