Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that hunts or processes whales.
- noun A whaling ship.
- noun A whaleboat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Something whaling, or big or extraordinary of its kind; a whopper; a whacker.
- noun The name given in Sydney to the shark, Carcharias brachyurus, Günth. E. E. Morris, Austral English.
- noun A sundowner; one who cruises about.
- noun A person or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing whales.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.
- noun Colloq. U. S. One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who hunts whales; a person employed in the whaling industry.
- noun A
seagoing vessel used for hunting whales. - noun One who
whales (flogs or beats). - noun slang A large, strong person.
- noun slang Something of unusually great size, a
whopper , awhacker . - noun Australia Any shark of the family
Carcharhinidae ; arequiem shark . - noun Australian slang, dated A
sundowner ; one whocruises about.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales
- noun a ship engaged in whale fishing
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Examples
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In the pictures here were it a normal circumstance, the whaler is the give way vessel.
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The whaler was the worst offender in a dirty business.
The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007
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The whaler was the worst offender in a dirty business.
The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007
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The iceberg Lincoln had mistaken for a whaler was a flat-top, a mile long.
The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007
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The iceberg Lincoln had mistaken for a whaler was a flat-top, a mile long.
The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007
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The whaler was the swifter of the two ships, and she could soon have overhauled the other; but fearing some treachery, the captain refrained from running her down until daylight.
Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897
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That first night with us on board the whaler was a fearful time.
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A most important contrivance belonging to a whaler is the crow's-nest, which I may describe as a sentry-box at the mast-head.
Peter the Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The whaler was a kind of pirate-miner - an excavator of oceanic oil, stoking the furnace of the Industrial
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The going and the coming of a "whaler" made Crip's father, Mr. John
chained_bear commented on the word whaler
"Make a show of resistance, panicky and disorganized, like a whaler might... Present company excepted, Mister Hogg." --Captain Aubrey, "Master and Commander"
February 21, 2007