4.1.13. Skids (question 19)
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Answer |
IPA |
Informants |
|
cradle |
|
II, III, VI, IX |
|
rollers |
|
IV, V, VII, XI,
XIII,
XVI |
| trailer |
|
VIII, XII, XIV |
| skids |
|
XV |
Informant VIII gave
trailer and skids as an answer. Trailer was the word he applied to smaller
boats (as did informant XII) and skids to the device put under the boat
when it is launched for the first time. I have no answer from informants I
and X.
Whereas smaller boats can be put on trailers to take them to sea or
as soon as they come ashore to beach them, larger vessels are still put on
round wooden sticks or timbers (rollers, skids) before launching and
beaching. Usually the boats are in the harbour all year round and are only
beached when they have to be painted or repaired. West Haven was the only
place where the boats had to be launched and beached with each trip.
Cradle seems to have the same function as a trailer.
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