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whaler

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s of a person, 1806 of a boat, agent noun from whale (v.). Old English had hwælhunta .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A whaler is a specialized kind of ship designed for whaling. Whaler may also refer to: Boston Whaler , a brand of motorboat Bronze whaler , a large shark Creek whaler , a requiem shark Whaler (album) , a 1994 album by Sophie B. Hawkins The Whaler, predecessor ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales a ship engaged in whale fishing [syn: whaling ship ]

Usage examples of whaler.

When the boat shoved off and puttered up the channel towards the labour camp on the nearest island, Sebastian looked back at Blucher with the same dumb stare as the men who squatted beside him on the floorboards of the whaler.

Sailor and Tinbad the Tailor and Jinbad the Jailer and Whinbad the Whaler and Ninbad the Nailer and Finbad the Failer and Binbad the Bailer and Pinbad the Pailer and Minbad the Mailer and Hinbad the Hailer and Rinbad the Railer and Dinbad the Kailer and Vinbad the Quailer and Linbad the Yailer and Xinbad the Phthailer.

I partly surmise also, that this wicked charge against whalers may be likewise imputed to the existence on the coast of Greenland, in former times, of a Dutch village called Schmerenburgh or Smeerenberg, which latter name is the one used by the learned Fogo Von Slack, in his great work on Smells, a text-book on that subject.

The whalers had been obliged to fall back on the finback or jubarte, a gigantic mammifer, whose attacks are not without danger.

It was a very pretty scene, but Wiki meditated that it looked a hard place to make a living, and that it was not surprising that so many of the sons of the Azores could be found on the decks of American whalers.

The general type of mirage was not unlike some of the wilder forms observed and drawn by the arctic whaler Scoresby in 1820, but at this time and place, with those dark, unknown mountain peaks soaring stupendously ahead, that anomalous elder-world discovery in our minds, and the pall of probable disaster enveloping the greater part of our expedition, we all seemed to find in it a taint of latent malignity and infinitely evil portent.

Donfil said, finally unfixing his eyes from the horizon and staring intently at the captain of the whaler.

Captained by Knud Unset, the son of a Norwegian whaler that Greenpeace confronted twenty five years ago.

But with the Archerfish not yet out of dry dock, they had to settle for using the sonar system held by Chief Monday to get back to the whaler they had started out from.

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.

The whalers hired the aboriginals to help man the harpoon boats and to trap for furs that could be taken back and sold at highly profitable rates, while the Inuit were, for the first time, exposed to the iron-and-steam-age goods of their employers.

Malmo and Gothenburg whalers, homeward bound and in no hurry from the far south fisheries, quite often use it, above all when there is so much south in the winds off the Horn, like it is now.

Bayou Perdu and New Orleans, and a new fiberglass Boston Whaler tied to one of the forty-foot classic columns at the front of the mansion.

Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs of the noble South Sea war-wood, are frequently met with in the forecastles of American whalers.