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outporter
/ ˈaʊtˌpɔːtə /
noun
- an inhabitant or native of a Newfoundland outport
Example Sentences
About twenty minutes after this, an outporter in Castle Hill Avenue was accosted by a young man, with a pale, desperate face, an exquisitely rolled umbrella and a heavy Gladstone bag.
She walked to the window, looked out at the familiar outporter's barrow, turned, surveyed Kipps for a moment ambiguously, said "I will get some tea," and so departed again.
That outporter's truck there is horrid—and the railings, but it's better than staring one's social replica in the face, isn't it?
There is the Newfoundland “outporter”—the small fisherman of the remoter coast, who must depend wholly upon his hook and line for subsistence.
It is, then, to the outporter, to the men of the fleet and to the Labrador liveyere that Doctor Grenfell devotes himself.
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