DCHP-2

Grand Banks DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• the extensive shoals, or bank (def. 1), lying southeast of Newfoundland, famous as cod-fishing grounds.

  See also: bank ((1)) ((n.)) (def. 1)  Banks (def. 2)  Great Banks  

  • 1935  To the south and east of the island [Newfoundland] one hundred miles or so lies the famous Great Grand Bank . . . some eighty thousand square miles in area. . . .
  • 1962  Doughty Nova Scotian sailors loaded their schooners with codfish from the Newfoundland Grand Banks and timber from the forests of the Maritimes. . . .