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whaler
Noun
whaler (whalers)
- A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.
- 1863: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Sylvia"s Lovers, v. - But o" Thursday t" Resolution, first whaler back this season, came in port.
- 1890: Century Illustrated Magazine, XL, 511 - For a whaler"s wife to have been ""round the Cape" half a dozen times, or even more, was nothing extraordinary.
- (Slang): One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size, a whopper, a whacker.
- (Australia): name given in Sydney to the shark Carcharias brachyurus Günth.
- (Australian slang): a sundowner; one who cruises about.
- 1893: Sydney Morning Herald, Aug. 12, 1893 - the nomad, "the whaler," it is who will find the new order hostile to his vested interest of doing nothing.
6 letters in word "whaler": A E H L R W.
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Words found within whaler:
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