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swile Newfoundland.|swaɪl|
Also swoil(e.
Irregular var. of seal n.1 Cf. soile.
1802J. Murphy Old Sealing Days (1916) 2 [J]ars, Doaters and Gunswoils and many others brew upon the rocks. c1845in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 450/2 When we got into the jam the swoiles were very thick. 1878in C. Hallock Hallock's Amer. Club List & Sportsman's Gloss. p. xi/2 Swile. 1907J. G. Millais Newfoundland ii. 39 Swoiles (seals) was much to us in the spring, for it meant 'bout what we lived on. 1924F. Baird Parson John of Labrador iii. 64 It's t' good Lard as does it,..as made t' harbours for we, an' sends t' fish, an' t' swiles. 1969H. Horwood Newfoundland xii. 83 Seals on the north-east coast are called swiles, and the guns used for hunting them are swilin' guns. 1974F. Mowat Boat who wouldn't Float vi. 58 A number of swile guns—longbarrelled, smooth-bore guns intended for killing seals.
Hence as v. intr. = seal v.3; swiling vbl. n.
c1894in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 455/2 Ma shall have a new silk dress, When Da comes home from swoiling. 1897B. Willson Tenth Island 110, I was no good for ‘swilin'’ any more. 1905N. Duncan Dr Grenfell's Parish 40, I been swilin'..in these seas every spring for fifty-seven years. 1906J. Lumsden Skipper Parson on Bays & Barrens of Newfoundland 90 If the Canadians come down here to take our country I'll get down my ‘swiling gun’, and we'll go out and meet 'em. 1969[see the n. above]. |