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- noun Plural form of
finback .
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You'll also see asymmetrically colored finbacks, curious minkes and endangered right whales.
Susan Fogwell: What to Do in Bar Harbor This Summer Susan Fogwell 2011
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You'll also see asymmetrically colored finbacks, curious minkes and endangered right whales.
Susan Fogwell: What to Do in Bar Harbor This Summer Susan Fogwell 2011
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These seafaring hippos then branched into the two superfamilies of the baleen whales (finbacks, blue whales) and the toothed whales (dolphins, porpoises). rdog29
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He was moderate in his exactions from the Indians, requiring, as a tribute, only a tenth part of all the whales, grampusses, and finbacks, which might be taken by the inhabitants of the Island, together with all the porpoises caught in the Frog-Month.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) James Athearn Jones
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But those two over there -- the ones we're after, are finbacks.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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Humpbacks an 'finbacks are taken for oil, an' they look quite different.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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Even the humpbacks and common finbacks, both well known in Canadian waters, occasionally surpass the average size of sperms and 'rights.'
All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways William Charles Henry Wood 1905
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As we sailed farther north many a school of rolling finbacks glistened silver in the sun or rose higher than our masthead, when one took the death-leap to escape its leagued foes -- swordfish and thrasher and shark.
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Coming back from the whale hunt, triumphant as if they had caught a dozen finbacks, the men erected a post, engraving on it the date, July 14, 1789, and the names of all present.
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But for a whole week we saw nothing but a grampus or so, a few loitering finbacks, and an occasional lean humpback bull certainly not worth chasing.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886
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