harpoon

Object

• whale: Grytviken lays claim to the largest blue whale harpooned on record.
• fish: On New Year's Day the crew harpooned a sun fish which weighed three quarters of a ton.

Converse of object

• fire: Whales are still caught with a grenade tipped harpoon fired from a cannon.
• explode: An exploding harpoon is fired into the whale's body.
• throw: It depicts Ken Taylor throwing a harpoon from his kayak on Loch Lomond in 1960.
• tip: Whales are still caught with a grenade tipped harpoon fired from a cannon.
• make: They make harpoons for hunting fish, pins for sewing up leather shoes, toggles for their fur-lined leather ` parka ' coats.
• have: He had not time to get it from the sheath before I had the harpoon through him.

Adjective modifier

explosive: Its whale hunters armed with explosive harpoons are on a six-week mission backed by their government to kill 38 minkes.

Modifies a noun

• gun: The game's premise involves a small, blond haired boy with a harpoon gun trying to shoot big bouncy balls.
• head: Harpoon head is made from a single piece of ivory with two dorsal spurs at notched proximal end.
• line: The old man killed the fish with his harpoon line.
• rope: The harpoon rope came down upon the inflatable getting stuck in the steering controls.
• vessel: While the Nisshin Maru is under way at speed no whales can be transferred from the harpoon vessels.
• rest: L-shaped ivory harpoon rest is attached to one side of cockpit with beige thread.

Noun used with modifier

• bone: As an example, look carefully at the bone harpoon ( Fig.
• steel: And rarely do they try very hard to avoid our high-powered hardened steel harpoons.
• grenade: The use of grenade harpoons was made obligatory in 1984.
• ivory: End of line is threaded through lateral line channel on underside of ivory harpoon head.