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Harpoons meaning
plural of harpoon
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As much as it’s a joy to watch Statham slinging explosive harpoons from a jet ski, Meg 2 offers only scattershot pleasures.
Some short, probing passing across Ipswich’s 18-yard line between Diaz, Mac Allister and Salah ends when Salah rolls the ball into the path of Alexander-Arnold who harpoons a shot with his right instep over the bar.
Arriving at Kanam and Kanjera in 1935, they found that the iron markers Louis had used to mark the sites had been removed by the Luo tribe for use as harpoons and the sites could not now be located.
Cnidarians are distinguished from all other animals by having cnidocytes that fire like harpoons and are used mainly to capture prey.
Eventually, seal hunters used harpoons to spear the animals from boats out at sea, and hooks for killing pups on ice or land.
Greenpeace activists disrupted the whaling by placing themselves between the harpoons and the whales, and footage of the protests spread across the world.
Harpoons were invented and used for the first time during the late Middle Paleolithic (c. 90,000 years ago); the invention of these devices brought fish into the human diets, which provided a hedge against starvation and a more abundant food supply.
Once they found a whale, they typically sailed up to it, fastened to it with hand-held harpoons, and killed it either with hand-held lances or (beginning in the late 1850s) fired bomb lances into them from shoulder guns.
The only hunting tools widely available to humans during any significant part of the Paleolithic period were hand-held spears and harpoons.
The three harpooneers dart their harpoons, and Flask delivers the mortal strike with a lance.
They are typically caught with nets, trawls and harpoons.
They used bows and arrows to hunt game, harpoons and toxic plants for fishing and gathered wild plants, yams, honey, fruit and nuts.
Weapons The Aleuts hunted small sea mammals with barbed darts and harpoons slung from throwing boards.