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flambeau
[< Cdn F < F "torch"]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a torch made of birchbark or resinous wood used as a jacklight (def. 1) in spearing fish at night.
See: jacklight ((n.))(def. 1)
Quotations
1784-1812
The Fir is resinous and makes good flambeaux's for spearing fish at night.
1929
The run commenced about dusk and finished round midnight, when, the fish growing scarce, we left off spearing. We used birchbark flambeaux for torches, and seldom secured less than a thousand each calm night during the whole spawning period.