Whaler
['weɪlə] or ['welɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a ship engaged in whale fishing.
(noun.) a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales.
Typed by Clint--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.
(n.) One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size.
Edited by Griffith
Examples
- Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I found that he had been in command of a whaler which was due to return from the Arctic seas at the very time when my father was crossing to Norway. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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