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fish stage 
1 North a platform of poles on which fish are hung to dry.
See also: drying stage (def. 2)
- 1792 (1923) We soon after rounded out a deep Bay, on the West side of which we saw a great number of fish stages erected from the ground in a slanting manner, for the purpose of exposing the fish fastened to them to the most advantageous aspect for, drying.
- 1818 We also perceived great quantities of stinking fish and bones lying scattered about their wigwams; together with canoes, and large fish-stages.
- 1939 The frozen white-fish . . . hung on fish-stages, high platforms made out of reach of the dogs
2 Nfld a waterside shed for gutting, heading, and salting fish to be dried on flakes.
See also: flake stage ((n.)) (def. 1)
- 1910 (1947) Half-way to the fish stage . . . Jimmie Grimm came to a startled full stop.
- 1963 . . . past the crazy legs of the wharves and fish stages and a clutch of tidy salt-box houses, fading finally into the bare and brooding hills.
- 1792 (1923) We soon after rounded out a deep Bay, on the West side of which we saw a great number of fish stages erected from the ground in a slanting manner, for the purpose of exposing the fish fastened to them to the most advantageous aspect for, drying.