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salt-banker
Maritimes
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a banker (def. 1) carrying enough salt to preserve the caught fish at once, thus making possible protracted stays on the fishing grounds.
Quotations
1955
I would like to acknowledge . . . the help given by the details of fishermen's duties aboard a salt-banker suggested in a short story by Thomas H. Raddall. . . .
1961
It was marked by the loss of a Nova Scotia salt-banker which had raced her way into the hearts of the nation