DCHP-2
flambeau [< Cdn F < F "torch"] DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a torch made of birchbark or resinous wood used as a jacklight (def. 1) in spearing fish at night.
See also: jacklight ((n.)) (def. 1)
- 1784-1812 (1916) The Fir is resinous and makes good flambeaux's for spearing fish at night.
- 1929 The run commenced about dusk and finished round midnight, when, the fish growing scarce, we left off spearing. We used birchbark flambeaux for torches, and seldom secured less than a thousand each calm night during the whole spawning period.
- 1784-1812 (1916) The Fir is resinous and makes good flambeaux's for spearing fish at night.