Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sport or play, as a whale, by raising the flukes out of water and bringing them down again flat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To raise the
flukes out of the water thenslap them down again flat
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They 'eave like water-spouts, and, lor! how they lobtail!'
Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877
reesetee commented on the word lobtail
A verb to describe the act of a whale or dolphin lifting its fluke out of the water and bringing it down hard and fast onto the surface of the water, so that it makes a loud slap. Also called, not surprisingly, slapping. :-)
February 27, 2008