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Whalebone
Whalebone meaning
The horny material from the fringed plates of the upper jaw of baleen whales that is used to filter plankton; once used as stays in corsets
Example sentences (3)
She specialised in made-to-measure whalebone corsets, working from her shop at 59 High Town Road in Luton between the wars.
A whale has eaten Captain Ahab’s leg; and Ahab has the ship carpenter fashion a prosthesis out of a whalebone.
It sits on Whalebone Cove, on a rural estuary of the Connecticut River.