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whaling ship

n. a ship engaged in whale fishing [syn: whaler]

Usage examples of "whaling ship".

If she could face a charging killer whale and destroy a whaling ship, she could make a machine work.

Later owned by Captain George Pollard Junior of the whaling ship Essex.

Behind these was an old whaling ship which ferried the meat to the refrigerator ship, a vessel of about 6,000 tons which was lying astern of the others.

He guessed that a whaling ship, especially with Pyra Quadde as skipper, was probably about as hard as a war wag.

Ryan could hear the far-off crying of gulls that trailed in the wake of the whaling ship.

This will be my last letter to you as I have a malady of the stomach, or so the doctor aboard the whaling ship Amie &amp.

This will be my last letter to you as I have a malady of the stomach, or so the doctor aboard the whaling ship Amie & Jason tells me.

Without a watch, she had no idea how many hours had passed since she walked from her husband's whaling ship, the Paloverde.

On the maternal side her grandfather was mate on a whaling ship-so there're sailors on both sides.

Upon returning to the whaling ship, he made sure to mark the coordinates carefully in his mind.