Add to ORKGshalloway nShalloway Pt, SHALLOWAY POINT (NTS Lane, Argentia) contains a specific not recorded in OED but described by D.W. Prowse: The fishing boats in the cod and seal fishery were formerly called shallops and shalloways . . . The shallop was a large boat, decked at both ends and open in the centre, with moveable deck-boards and pounds; there were cuddies both fore and aft where the fishermen could sleep ... . The shalloways were open boats, what are now called punts. The name seems to suggest a boat for use in shallow waters. Lounsbury states that they were in use with shallops and sloops in the Bank Fishery after 1713. Lane also records a Shalloway Island (NTS St. Lawrence an...