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share ((n.))
Esp. Nfld, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
that portion of the value of a catch of fish or seals due to each shareman.
See: shareman
Quotations
1877
[The cook is an important personage and is well paid--on some of the . . . [fishing] vessels he receives as much as eighty dollars a month and a share in the profits--but then he is hard worked, especially on a banker.]
1965
. . . after the Peace of Utrecht, the West Countrymen discarded the old system of fishing "by shares" and adopted the payment of wages, usually in truck.