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I think it mean that he is looking at all these other places (outports are Europian settlements in Canada) and watching them become tangled and hard to separate - like with a fishing line. Or they have to be careful and not become lost or tangled.
Scrawny it provides the best adjective that could be connotative
God's love an mercy --- is the correct answer
To put many objects, in your case food, in a pile. Hope this helps!
I think it is 7 because it explains it