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jone (pole)
[ ? perhaps a variant of gin (aphetic form of engine) device, contrivance]
Maritimes
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:joan
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a long pole set upright in the water, its butt-end anchored in a block of concrete, a buoyed hawser being attached to the top for the mooring of boats.
See: pryor (pole)
Quotations
1945
Now came a time when we kept our boat on a joan-pole about a hundred yards off-shore from the landing place.
1953
No houses nor fish-stores had stood among the rocks, no small boats had ridden at jone-poles, no vessels at anchor, when Prince Nickerson and his bride came to town.
1965
. . . the larger fishing-boats which bring visitors to the island must tie up at the jone, a hundred and fifty yards offshore, then transfer their passengers to a skiff and row them to the slip.