Crossword clues for bowhead
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bowhead \Bow"head`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The great Arctic or Greenland whale. ( Bal[ae]na mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.
Wiktionary
n. A large whale, (taxlink Balaena mysticetus species noshow=1), having a large, rounded head, that inhabits Arctic waters.
WordNet
n. large-mouthed arctic whale [syn: bowhead whale, Greenland whale, Balaena mysticetus]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "bowhead".
While his head ached slightly from the fiery usquebaugh of the Bowhead saloon, he craved a return to a solid diet, so for several minutes he lay supine, conjuring in his agile brain ways and means of supplying this need in the absence of ready cash.
Maggie Smallwood tells me everything is going to happen in the spring, when the belukha and the bowhead mate.
Cape Bowhead in the middle of the night should chance to see us looming faintly in the darkness, he will take us for some little fore-and-aft affair of no consequence.
To the south-east the squadron could be seen standing out to sea, stern-lanterns and gunports brilliant, in line ahead on the starboard tack: and beyond the ships, well beyond them, the steadily repeated flash of the Bowhead light.
Cape Bowhead, was standing south-west on the west-north-west breeze with the larboard tacks aboard, moving just fast enough to have steerage-way.
In the shadow of a neighbouring bush Captain Scraggs babbled of steam beer in the Bowhead saloon, and the commodore, stifling his own agony, watched his comrades until their lips and tongues, parched with thirst, refused longer to produce even a moan, and silence settled over the dismal camp.
Later in the day all four members of the syndicate met in the Bowhead saloon, where Mr.
Six months before, Greenpeace had been protesting the taking of bowhead whales in the Arctic Ocean by the Inupiat people who lived there.
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.
And then the gray whales and the sei whales, the bowheads and blues and others of the mysticeti disappeared beneath the sea.
Half an hour later the whole force and its prizes, an imposing body of ten sail covering a fine stretch of sea some two miles off Cape Bowhead, was standing south-west on the west-north-west breeze with the larboard tacks aboard, moving just fast enough to have steerage-way.