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▪ I. haaf|hɑːf, haf|
Also haave, haff.
[a. ON. haf (Sw. haf, Da. hav) sea, high sea, ocean.]
In Shetland and Orkney: The deep or main sea: now used only in connexion with deep-sea fishing; hence, the part of the deep-sea frequented by fishermen; deep-sea fishing ground or station.
1809Edmondston Zetland Isl. I. 237 The boats set off for the fishing ground, which is called the haaf, from 10 o'clock a.m. to 2 o'clock of the afternoon. 1822Scott Pirate vi, The careful skipper will sleep still enough in the deep haaf. 1844W. H. Maxwell Sports & Adv. Scotl. xv, The men employed at the Haaf, or the fishing-station most distant from the land. 1888Edmondston Home of Naturalist 168 On returning from a night's fishing at the haaf.
b. attrib. and Comb. Pertaining to or employed in the haaf or deep-sea fishing, as haaf-boat, haaf-boy, haaf-fishing; haaf-eel, a name of the conger-eel; haaf-fish, the great seal, Phoca barbata.
1793Statist. Acc. Scot. VII. 693 (Jam.) The first master of a boat to the Ha-af, or ling fishing, from Sansting, is now alive. 1806Neill Tour Orkney 107 (Jam.) Teind has always been exigible on the produce of the haaf fishing. 1808–18Jamieson, Haaf-fish, the Great Seal, Phoca barbata. 1844N. Brit. Rev. I. 359 A crew of four men and a haave-boy. 1856E. Edmondston Sk. & T. Shetland Isl. iv. 43 Engaged in the deep sea or haff fishing. 1866Morning Star 17 Aug. 3/3 The ‘haaf’ boats from the island of Unst. 1880–4Day Brit. Fishes II. 251 Haaf-eel, a name given to the common conger in the Moray Firth.
▪ II. haaf, haak
dial. ff. half, hake. |