DCHP-3

strad

[? a shortening of straddle]
Maritimes
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

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Quotations

1955
Before anchoring I had had the cable parceled and served with canvas and bagging along the part stretching from the hawse-pipe to the water--the "strad" as fishermen call it.