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make fish
Esp. Nfld
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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cure fish by drying it in the sun.
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1620
And thus they doe, striuing to be there first in a Harbour, to obtaine the name of Admirall that yeere: and so, to haue the chiefest place to make their fish on, where they may doe it with the greatest ease, and have the choice of diuers other necessaries in the Harbors, which do them little stead: but the taking of them wrongs many others of your Majesties subjects, which arriue there after the first.
1842
Lastly, many families in some of the outports, instead of ,"making," or curing, their own fish bring it as it is caught to the merchants' stores and stages, where it is cured by his own men.
1909
A fisher-man comes here to "make" fish, not to catch them.
1965
There are no fish plants on the coast; the fish must therefore be processed and dried by the fishermen themselves. As soon as a returning fishing boat is sighted, the women and children rush to the wharf to assist in "making the fish."