yaffle: translation
(noun))
1) an armful of dried or nearly dried salt fish in Newfoundland, i.e. the amount that could be comfortably carried under one arm. Also a small yaffle could be as many fish as could be held in two hands together and a large yaffle what a man can gather in his two arms;
2) to take up an armful of fish and referring to the work of spreading, gathering and piling fish