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barrasway barrisway [< Cdn F barachoix, barachois] Nfld Dial. 
n. Atlantic Provinces.
See also: barachois (def. 1)
- 1842 There was a shallow salt lake at the back of the harbour that filled at the rise of the tide, and was called by the people a Barrasway. This was a very common term for a shallow marshy inlet or salt lake along the south coast of Newfoundland. It is spelt in the French charts Barachois, and is, I conclude, a Norman word.
- 1963 BARRISWAY, n. a lagoon at a river mouth.
- 1842 There was a shallow salt lake at the back of the harbour that filled at the rise of the tide, and was called by the people a Barrasway. This was a very common term for a shallow marshy inlet or salt lake along the south coast of Newfoundland. It is spelt in the French charts Barachois, and is, I conclude, a Norman word.