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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a fishing vessel that brings a catch of fish back fresh, rather than salted, from the Grand Banks.
See: Great Banks
Quotations
1961
A group of Halifax and Lunenburg men realized that the problem was to produce a salt banker with a cargo-carrying capacity combined with the speed of a fresh fisherman.