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fishing stage
Esp. Nfld
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a waterside shed for gutting, heading, and salting fish to be dried on flakes.
Quotations
1715
On the 19th September a storm of unexampled severity swept over the island, causing an immense destruction of shipping, houses, fishing stages and flakes, fences and bridges, and engulfing in many instances the fruits of the fishermen's toil during the previous summer.
1944
Boats are loaded down to the water's edge and then headed for the fishing stage for the dressing of the fish.
1958
Each year high seas came in and smashed the fishing stages and equipment, and each year the sturdy fishermen would go as far as seven miles into the forest for wood to rebuild.
2 — Rare
See flake 1883 quote.
See: flake
Quotations
1842
The consumption of all the spruce tribe in the formation of fishing stages, or places to dry the fish on, is enormous; as, in consequence of nature having denied this iron-bound shore the necessary beaches, man has been obliged to substitute stages or platforms, which are very ingeniously formed along the steep descents of the hills on the edges of harbours, by using upright stakes of great length, and attaching others from the hill side to them, and then covering the platform thus formed in ribs longitudinally with the boughs and branches of the pines.