Crossword clues for finback
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Finback \Fin"back`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Bal[ae]noptera, and allied genera, of the family Bal[ae]nopterid[ae], characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus.
Wiktionary
n. A large baleen whale, ''Balaenoptera physalus'', that has a ridge on its back; the fin whale.
WordNet
n. large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific [syn: finback whale, fin whale, common rorqual, Balaenoptera physalus]
Usage examples of "finback".
Mounted on the fore-shrouds, they scanned the movements of their coveted prey in the distance, freely descanting upon the profit to be made out of a good finback and declaring that it would be a thousand pities if this chance of filling the casks below should be permitted to be lost.
He could not really conceal from his own mind that the pursuit of a finback was always a matter of some peril, and he was anxious, accordingly, to make every possible provision which forethought could devise against all emergencies.
It was with these alone that Captain Hull was now about to encounter the finback that was lying some four miles distant from his ship.
It is not very likely, but it is possible that this finback may carry us out to some distance.
Howick held himself in readiness to sheer off quickly in the event of the finback making a turn towards the boat.
The whalers had been obliged to fall back on the finback or jubarte, a gigantic mammifer, whose attacks are not without danger.
I have always heard from whalers that the finback is not worth hunting.
It is possible that in cruising after sperms they may go a little out of their way to take a finback or two.
Hairy Harry while the Tailorcraft wiggled through the last hundred miles to Jameson, in between showing his passenger such curiosities as a finback whale coming up to spout between dives, over seventy feet of smoothly shaped gray-blue creature calmly pursuing a majestic existence framed by whitecaps on green waves.
It even had the skeleton of a finback whale that had washed up in the 1960s.
Flea added, turning again and giving the woman a smile so broad he looked like a finback whale.
The finbacks, for example, emit extremely loud sounds at a frequency of twenty Hertz, down near the lowest octave on the piano keyboard.
Two hundred years ago, a typical distance across which finbacks could communicate was perhaps 10,000 kilometers.
The first trail builder Nirgal had met had been a woman constructing a trail along the finback of the Geryon Montes, the long ridge on the floor of lus Chasma.