What is "harpooner"

Usage examples of "harpooner".

I am thankful that Hammerhead Jack is the harpooner in our crew, and I hope by watching to learn much from him.

The boats pulled rapidly towards it, and the harpooners plied it with their lances.

Hood said, "there is increasing evidence that the attack on the Iranian oil rig was executed not by Azerbaijanis but by Iranians under the direction of the terrorist known as the Harpooner.

He orders the harpooners to present their barbed harpoons to him and, to continue what has become a blasphemous parody of a religious service, he baptizes the harpoons with liquor, shouting, "Death to Moby-Dick!

Rising from a little cabin-boy in short clothes of the drabbest drab, to a harpooner in a broad shad-bellied waistcoat.

He had Fenwick turning pale when he said that the Harpooner had been captured.

And when the Harpooner's Iranian cohorts were found dead with photographs and other evidence of sabotage on their bodies--murdered by the Harpooner himself--the vice president and Fenwick would be vindicated.

I announced our names and rank, introducing in person Professor Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and Master Ned Land, the harpooner.

Then the killer's eyes shut, the knife fell from his hand, and the Harpooner tumbled to the floor between Battat and the phone bank.

Some harpooners will consume almost an entire morning in this business, carrying the line high aloft and then reeving it downwards through a block towards the tub, so as in the act of coiling to free it from all possible wrinkles and twists.