trap berth

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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v. — Nfld

an area marked off by a trap fisherman, and claimed for his own use.

Quotations

1905

. . . the Government has had to pass a law forbidding any mark to be put out claiming a "trap berth," as it is called, before a certain day and hour.