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longer ((n.)) [long + -er] Atlantic Provinces 
n. long poles or timber in the rough, used for building fishing stages, fences, floors, etc.; stringer.
See also: longer fence
- 1772 (1792) At noon I . . . searched the woods . . . where I found some good longers, and boat-hook staffs.
- 1837 On Thursday last the skeleton of a man was found in the woods a short distance from the Block House, at the entrance of this harbour, by a man and boy who were cutting longers.
- 1878 On the afternoon of their death, the deceased . . . left home for the woods to draw "longers" across the pond.
- 1963 LONGERS, n. Rails for a fence.
- 1772 (1792) At noon I . . . searched the woods . . . where I found some good longers, and boat-hook staffs.