- Pistol –a lobster with no claws. If you look at a clawless lobster, you can almost see why, though it probably takes a little downeast logic to get there.
- Gear – refers to a fisherman’s traps, line, buoys as in “I’m going to set my gear tomorrow” or “I’m going to shift my gear offshore.”
- Shit poke- slang for the cormorant bird, a bird that can swim by diving underwater to take small fish and invertebrates.
- Funny eye- refers to a laced in head opening instead of the more typical hoop.
- Pocket – refers to a bait bag, which is the knitted bag fishermen put their bait – herring, Redfish, Pogies – in before it goes in their trap.
- Rope wrench – knife.
- Cull – a one clawed lobster – they are usually cost less on a per pound basis.
- Bait iron – the long metal rod with a handle used to pit bait/bait bags in trap.
- Spudger- slang for bait iron.
- Scrid- little or nothing as in “there’s not a scrid of pie left for me!”
- Chix – this is short for chicken and refers to a one pound lobster. Like a cull, it often yields a lower price.
- Go to Haul – going lobstering as in “I’m going to haul tomorrow”
- Broke down “George can’t go to haul because he’s broke down”
- Dooryard – front yard
- Select – larger lobster, 13/4lbs+ typically yields a higher price.
- “From away” – most of you reading this piece – anyone not from Maine (and to be from Maine your family has to go back at least 3 generations….)
- Oilers – the gear fishermen wear hauling – Grundens, etc.
- Hard Tellin’ – This one is just what you think, as in “Hard tellin’ what the season will bring.”
- Corker – something amazing remarkable – “it was a corker of a day. Ayuh.”
- Ayuh – if you don’t know this one…you need to visit Maine!
