"fuik" and "sea dog"

[George Thompson]

A "sea dog" was captured in NY harbor "stealing Bass from a fuik of a Bass
Net"
N-Y Commercial Advertiser, March 21, 1832, p. 2, col. 2

"Fuik" seems to be in DARE; at least, the search possible from the DARE
homepage gives a fragment of an entry, including the etymology " Du *fuik* a
bow-net"
I take "sea dog" to mean "seal", but it seems not to be in DARE

I will get the full context, upon request.

GAT


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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ.
Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.

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