Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The flesh of the porpoise or the whale.
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Examples
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Sometimes it tasted fishy, as if it was a decoction of Dutch herrings; and then it would taste very salty, as if some old horse, or sea-beef, had been boiled in it; and then again it would taste a sort of cheesy, as if the captain had sent his cheese-parings forward to make our coffee of; and yet another time it would have such a very bad flavor, that I was almost ready to think some old stocking-heels had been boiled in it.
Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855
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