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Nantucket Definition

Nan·tucket (nan tuk′it)

island of Mass., south of Cape Cod: summer resort: 46 sq mi (119 sq km); pop. 9,500

Etymology: Massachusett

Nantucket Quotes

This is the end of the whaleroad and the whale Who spewed Nantucket bones on the thrashed swell And stirred the troubled waters to whirlpools To send the Pequod packing off to hell

—Lowell, RobertTraill Spence,Jr

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