Whaler meaning

wā'lər, hwā'-
One that hunts or processes whales.
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A whaling ship.
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A whaleboat.
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A ship used in whaling.
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A person whose work is whaling.
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One who hunts whales; a person employed in the whaling industry.
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A seagoing vessel used for hunting whales.
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One who whales (flogs or beats).
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(slang) A large, strong person.
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(slang) Something of unusually great size, a whopper, a whacker.
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(Australia) Any shark of the family Carcharhinidae; a requiem shark.
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(Australian slang, dated) A sundowner; one who cruises about.
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Whaler Sentence Examples

  • Nantucket's last whaler sailed in 1869.

  • Thus, in 1611 or the following year whalers from Hull named it Trinity Island; in 1612 Jean Vrolicq, a French whaler, called it Ile de Richelieu; and in 1614 Joris Carolus named one of its promontories Jan Meys Hoek after the captain of one of his ships.

  • In 1712 a Nantucket whaler, Christopher Hussey, blown out to sea, killed some sperm whales and thus introduced the sperm-oil industry and put an end to the period in which only driftand shoreor boat-whaling had been carried on - the shore fishery died out about 1760.

  • The first who gave more accurate information was the Scottish whaler, Captain William Scoresby, jun.

  • across the ice, to seek help. He reached the shores of Siberia in 17 days, and travelling along the coast via Cape North, reached Emma Harbour, whence he crossed in a whaler to St.

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