Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See blue whale.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The sulphur-bellied whale of the Pacific, a rorqual, Balænoptera (or Sibbaldius) sulphurea. Also sulphur-whale.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of sulfur-bottom.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also
sulphur whale .
Examples
“The sulphur-bottom whale (_B. sulfureus_) is known by its yellowish belly, and with Sibbald's whale”
“The sulphur-bottom, river St. Lawrence, ninety foot long; they are but seldom killed, as being extremely swift.”
“Now you take the sulphur-bottom whale, "Vexley hastily launched off again.”
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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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