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Labradorman

• 1 n. a Newfoundland fisherman who summers on the Labrador coast, spending the winters at home.

  See also: visiting fisherman  liveyere  

  • 1905  Withal, the Labradormen are of a simple, God-fearing, clean-lived, hardy race of men.
  • 1935  Mid-June sees the Labradorman setting sail from his home port on the northern coast of Newfoundland.

• 2 n. a resident or native of Labrador.

  • 1918  Labrador is owned by Newfoundland, so that legally the Labradormen are Newfoundlanders, though they have no representation in the Newfoundland Government.
  • 1933  It is something that has to do with their Labradorman's code that says, "I am not tired, I am not hungry, I am steel."

• 3 n. a fishing vessel of a Labradorman (def. 1).

  See also: Labradorman (def. 1)  

  • 1905  . . . in a week--two weeks or three--the last of the Labradormen have gone "down north."
  • 1964  . . . sharemen were and are sometimes chargeable . . . when a Labradorman's voyage of fish has to be "made," i.e. sun dried, by the planters.