Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A porpoise or some similar cetacean.
- n. The dugong.
Examples
“Pay close attention to the breathtaking very, very real and not at all Photoshopped photograph of a sea-pig in action and the description of its sea-truffle-finding, which is useful if, like me, you were wondering exactly what sort of food they are digging up from beneath the ocean floor.”
“This is no Babe-like friendly fuzzy sea-pig, this is a big damn Hannibal pig that will eat your face.”
“The sea-pig definitely needs to stop sitting around eating Hot Pockets...”
“Also, you can find a contemporary, learned text on the sea-pig here.”
“I'll settle matters with you later on for meddling in this affair, you kelp-haired sea-pig.”
“Close inshore a porpoise is wallowing, like the jolly sea-pig that he is, in his berth of glistening water.”
“{58} [Compare French _marsouin_ (= German _meer-schwein_), “sea-pig”, the dolphin; Breton _mor-houc’h_; Irish _mucc mara_, “pig of the sea”, the dolphin (W. Stokes, _Irish Glossaries_, p. 118); French _truye de mer_ (Cotgrave); old English _brun-swyne_ (_Prompt.”
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whaling terms
Terms defined in the glossary of Clifford W. Ashley's "Yankee Whaler".
advance, adze, after house, after oar, agent, air up, alow, ambergris, apeak, article, away, bailer and 299 more...
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