Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who whales; a whaler; especially, one engaged in the actual capture of whales, as distinguished from another indirectly concerned in the industry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A man employed in the whale fishery.
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- noun A
male whaler .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The spouter, as the sailors call a whaleman, had sent out his main top-gallant mast and set the sail, and made signal for us to heave to.
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The "spouter," as the sailors call a whaleman, had sent out his main top-gallant mast and set the sail, and made signal for us to heave to.
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869
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The "spouter," as the sailors call a whaleman, had sent up his main top-gallant mast and set the sail, and made signal for us to heave to.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848
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` ` spouter, '' as the sailors call a whaleman, had sent up his main top-gallant mast and set the sail, and made signal for us to heave to.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848
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West; there was also the sea, and the Nantucket whaleman was the sea-going mountain man of his day, chasing the sperm whale into the distant corners of the Pacific Ocean.
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In the past, the White House has flensed its turncoats with the expertise of a 19th century New England whaleman.
Roberts: White House says 'not the Scott McClellan we knew' 2008
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When you take a look at the White House response to all of this, in the past, I said that they have flensed their opponents, their turncoats, with the skill of a New England whaleman.
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Wiki remembered Mrs. Hemington's big blue eyes and pretty curls, and hoped she would have the sense not to choose a whaleman when she remarried.
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No: he desired a canoe like those of Nantucket, all the more congenial to him, being a whaleman, that like a whale-boat these coffin-canoes were without a keel; though that involved but uncertain steering, and much lee-way adown the dim ages.
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They told me in Nantucket, though it certainly seems a curious story, that when he sailed the old Categut whaleman, his crew, upon arriving home, were mostly all carried ashore to the hospital, sore exhausted and worn out.
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Whalemen make the best boats' crews in the world for a long pull, but this landing was new to them, and, notwithstanding the examples they had had, they slewed round and were hove up-- boat, oars, and men-- all together, high and dry upon the sand.
- Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, ch. 25
September 9, 2008