Whaler definition

wālər, hwā-
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A whaling ship.
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A person whose work is whaling.
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One that hunts or processes whales.
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A whaleboat.
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A ship used in 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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Noun

Singular:
whaler
Plural:
whalers

Whaler Sentence Examples

  • Nantucket's last whaler sailed in 1869.

  • 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.

  • You've got more time on your hands than an unemployed whaler.

  • He had aboard his two ships, the " Lady Nelson " of 60 tons and the whaler " Albion " of 3 06 tons, three officials, a lance-corporal and seven privates of the New South Wales Corps, six free men and twenty-five convicts, together with an adequate supply of live stock, and landed at Risdon, near Hobart, where he was joined shortly afterwards by fifteen soldiers and forty-two convicts.

  • In 1961, founder Richard Fisher used a crosscut saw to cut a Whaler in half.

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