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The Japanese keep doing it, for crying out loud!
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whaling
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Whaling is the hunting of whales purportedly for meat , oil , blubber , and scientific research . Its earliest forms date to at least circa 3000 BC. Various coastal communities have long histories of subsistence whaling and harvesting beached whales. Industrial ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"whale-fishing," 1716, verbal noun from whale (v.).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE commercial ▪ Both worry about the fishing villages whose livelihood has been commercial whaling . ▪ Today, commercial whaling is banned. ▪ But we do face a real possibility that some commercial whaling will be allowed ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whaling \Whal"ing\, a. Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales; as, a whaling voyage; a whaling vessel.
Usage examples of whaling.
Then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the whaling hands at the far table were all standing up, drawing cudgels and belaying pins from their belts, grinning to one another.
One last good landing before he let the federal government buy his boat, the Santo Fado, out of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, and he took up cabinet making, turning his back of the livelihood that had fed seven generations of Rezendez going back to the days when Innsmouth was the whaling capital of the New World.
My arms and hands ached from whaling away at the box and my head ached worse from hearing Kewpie sing and play consistently out of tune.
Maori took to their backs, why will the pakeha whaling captain think we have acted badly?
John Smith, passing by on a whaling expedition, had remapped the region, diligently taking heed of the names the Indians themselves used.
Wood can be used for sleds, and tent frames and the frames of kayaks and umiaks, the large, broad vessels which can hold several individuals, sometimes used in whaling.
Because he was so strong, he was alternately a hammer man, whaling away with a twelve-pound sledge, and a prizer, using a crowbar to move blocks of granite.
In addition, Captain Unset is attempting to open whaling in the name of his aging father who is terminally ill.
In Barrow, the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission spent a large part of its annual convention last year discussing, among other things, the perils of hunting bowhead whales from increasingly thinner ice.
He tied one end of the rope to the capstan, and the other end was tied to a large boat, a type of whaling boat, that had been filled with firewood and candlewood, all soaked with oil so it would burn well.
The trading ships and cogs, the whaling boats pass over the rot of other craft.
Hans Eide was master and as assistant manager was Erik Bland, son of the chairman of the South Antarctic Whaling Company.
There was also some fatback, which Ryan guessed was another of the commodities that Claggartville traded for their whaling produce.
She could not visualize the old slab-sided whaling captain who had scrawled that, inspired no doubt by practical knowledge of disaster and the horrors of Kerguelen, but the message came now as an additional comfort, it seemed to her written by a hand other than that of man.
Nestbyte do nothing when the bull rolled, now he says Nestbyte were busy cutting the whaling line with his bowie knife and loses it from his grasp as the boat turns over.