Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A whaleman.
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Examples
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Kings, I must not conceal that I have only to do with a poor old whale-hunter like him; and, therefore, all outward majestical trappings and housings are denied me.
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Who, but no less a prince than Alfred the Great, who, with his own royal pen, took down the words from Other, the Norwegian whale-hunter of those times!
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POTTER (voice-over): In fact, Benson Resford is not only a whale-hunter, he's chairman of Kaktovic's Village corporation, an Eskimo corporation that owns 92,000 acres of coastal tundra, which Resford wants to develop.
CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Debate is Heated Over Oil Drilling in Alaska - March 4, 2001 2001
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Your true whale-hunter is as much a savage as an Iroquois.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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Kings, I must not conceal that I have only to do with a poor old whale-hunter like him; and, therefore, all outward majestical trappings and housings are denied me.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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Your true whale-hunter is as much a savage as an Iroquois.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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Who, but no less a prince than Alfred the Great, who, with his own royal pen, took down the words from Other, the Norwegian whale-hunter of those times!
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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But Ahab, my Captain, still moves before me in all his Nantucket grimness and shagginess; and in this episode touching Emperors and Kings, I must not conceal that I have only to do with a poor old whale-hunter like him; and, therefore, all outward majestical trappings and housings are denied me.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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Who, but no less a prince than Alfred the Great, who, with his own royal pen, took down the words from Other, the Norwegian whale-hunter of those times!
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'They didn't tell much of anything about him; only I've heard that he's a good whale-hunter, and a good captain to his crew. '
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