10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LIVEYER»
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Dictionary of Newfoundland English
livyer n also liver, livere, liveyer, liveyere, livier I'kvjaj. Mivjaj). Cp DAE liver '
inhabitant, resident' (1678-1850), EDDIiversb1 1 'dweller' sw dies: var livier Do
So D, livyer D; O Sup2 liveyere (Nfld: 1863-); DC liveyere Nfld 2 (1946-) for sense
1 , 1 ...
George Morley Story, W. J. Kirwin, John David Allison Widdowson, 1990
Spruce beer is also here to be had, if one has the good fortune to fall in with
Liveyer's family up from Newfoundland for the summer-fishing and living in a hut
with sodded roof, wherein the blooms of fireplant and live-for-ever make a splash
of ...
3
An Arctic Man: The Classic Account of Sixty-five Years in ...
To be a liveyer, your parents had to have come from another country, from
anywhere, like Sweden or Scotland or England, and settled on the Labrador to
live. I guess I'm probably a liveyer, or was. At the school they took Eskimo kids
and the ...
4
Along the Labrodor Coast
At a liveyer's house I was about to sit on a bench, but hesitated because an
Eskimo dog was stretched beneath. The liveyer, a kind and devoted father,
kicked the dog out of the way with such severity that he howled with pain. Dogs in
the way ...
Charles Wendell Townsend, 1907
5
The Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia
Go and ask the " liveyer " of Labrador why he dwells where there are no trees,
and the wind rages, and the ice binds the sea. Ask the Arab why he endures the
dust-storms and the locusts and the drouth ; or inquire of the black man of the ...
Geographical Society of Philadelphia, Geographical Club of Philadelphia, 1915
6
Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia
Go and ask the " liveyer " of Labrador why he dwells where there are no trees,
and the wind rages, and the ice binds the sea. Ask the Arab why he endures the
dust-storms and the locusts and the drouth; or inquire of the black man of the ...
... Newfoundlander, or "liveyer" from Labrador — one and all are shaped in fiber
and character and uplifted by the very harshness of the elements with which they
battle for a living. The beauty born of strength, shows in every fisher face in this ...
8
The Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian ...
This is commonly regerded as a corruption of lean to. But Wright gives linhay as
in the Westmoreland dialect denoting an open shed. In this form, also it appears
in " Lorna Doone," a novel written in the Devonshire dialect. Liveyer. This woid ...
9
Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science
Liveyer. This woid is used particularly on the coast of Labrador, but also in
Newfoundland, to denote a resident, in contrast with one visiting for fishing or
other purposes. It simply seems the word liver, altered in the pronunciation. They
treat the ...
Nova Scotian Institute of Science, Halifax, 1898
10
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Crockford's Clerical Directory established ca. 1871: Clerical: from ca. 1880.
livestock. See live stock. Liveyer(e), Livyere. A permanent inhabitant of the
Labrador coast: Can coll.:—1901. Ex live here. OED Sup. livid. Furiously angry;
very much ...
