Crossword-Solution: HAAF
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Haaf | n. | The deepsea fishing for cod, ling, and tusk, off the Shetland Isles. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Deep-sea fishing grounds off Shetlands. | 1 answer |
| fishing ground off the Shetland and Orkney Islands | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
fishes.
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Sentences with HAAF (5)
But them bats is all-fired long, 'n' eight on 'em stretched in a straight line eendways makes a consid'able piece aout 'f a mile 'n' a haaf.
The 'haaf fishery' is, in the greater part of Shetland, synonymous with the home or summer fishery, being distinguished from it only where, as at Sumburgh, seath fishing is prosecuted in summer in the smaller open boats.
There is a regular season for the haaf fishing, lasting from about the 20th of May till the 12th of August.
Hay to hold the lease of the island is that they may obtain the fish of the inhabitants, who are bold and successful fishermen, and are more favourably situated for the haaf fishing than any other people in Shetland.
Almost their only profitable fishing is in the summer months; and it seems to be certain that the haaf fishing could not be successfully prosecuted in winter with the present open boats.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1945).