DCHP-2
Labradorman DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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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.
- 1905 Withal, the Labradormen are of a simple, God-fearing, clean-lived, hardy race of men.