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Whaler meaning
One who hunts whales; any person employed in the whaling industry. | A seagoing vessel used for hunting whales. | One who whales (flogs or beats).
Example sentences (16)
It's revealed that The Whaler and Wujing are working together to cheat at the exclusive high-stakes poker games, and Wujing uses the winnings to fund his illegal schemes, with The Whaler getting a percentage.
It's interesting considering how close it is, because the how-the-whale-got-its-name part is spot on--using the whaler's fieldwork descriptor and all.
Boston Whaler Owner: Would not want to be on that in a bad storm,it looks like a death trap.
A bronze whaler spotted near the Busselton Jetty on Tuesday.
Old Whaler’s Church was the site of Sag Harbor American Music Festival’s opening night.
Whale watching cruises embark sunrise to sunset from Lahaina Harbor or Whaler’s Village, both in close proximity to the AAA Four Diamond-rated Hyatt Regency Maui Resort.
Yesterday a 2.2-metre whaler shark was spotted south of Lennox Head at around 7.40am.
Franklin put the question to his cousin Timothy Folger, a Nantucket whaler captain, who told him that merchant ships routinely avoided a strong eastbound mid-ocean current.
In 1775, the whaler Herald found the Octavius adrift near Greenland with the bodies of her crew frozen below decks.
Matthiessen (1941), 431 Background Autobiographical elements Moby-Dick is based on Melville's actual experience on a whaler.
One of his battles with a whaler served as subject for an article by explorer Jeremiah N. Reynolds in the May 1839 issue of The Knickerbocker or New-York Monthly Magazine.
Sightings by whalers Captain George B. Worth of the Nantucket whaler Oeno sighted Howland around 1822 and called it Worth Island.
The 18 months he spent as an ordinary seaman aboard the whaler Acushnet in 1841–42, and one incident in particular, now served as inspiration.
The mutiny was suppressed by armed sailors from the French whaler Jean Jacques, whilst Mestivier's widow was taken on board the British sealer Rapid.
The Pequod s next gam is with the French whaler Bouton de Rose, whose crew is ignorant of the ambergris in the head of the diseased whale in their possession.
The whaler tries to recruit Billy to help with a robbery, but Billy declines, as the victim—Julie's former boss, Mr. Bascombe—might have to be killed.