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sealer ((1))
Esp. Nfld
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a person taking part in the seal fishery.
Quotations
1770
After breakfast we set off homewards, being accompanied by two of the sealers.
1842
The sealers are seen coming from all parts of the country to St. John's, with their bundle of spare clothing over their shoulders, supported by a stick, six or eight feet long, which is to serve as a bat or club to strike the seal on the nose, where he is very vulnerable. . . .
1966
At the end of a hunting day the sealers leave the ice with their skins and the female seals--thousands of them--crawl back on to the ice to the carcasses of their young.
2n.
a ship engaged in hunting seals.
Quotations
1829
The crews of 10 sealers, lost in the ice, had been brought into St. John's. . . .
1962
Men from the sealer Algerine pack together pelts from seals they have caught on the last winter's ice.