Definitions
Etymologies
- whale + man (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The spouter, as the sailors call a whaleman, had sent out his main top-gallant mast and set the sail, and made signal for us to heave to.”
“The "spouter," as the sailors call a whaleman, had sent out his main top-gallant mast and set the sail, and made signal for us to heave to.”
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative
“The "spouter," as the sailors call a whaleman, had sent up his main top-gallant mast and set the sail, and made signal for us to heave to.”
“` ` spouter, '' as the sailors call a whaleman, had sent up his main top-gallant mast and set the sail, and made signal for us to heave to.”
“West; there was also the sea, and the Nantucket whaleman was the sea-going mountain man of his day, chasing the sperm whale into the distant corners of the Pacific Ocean.”
“In the past, the White House has flensed its turncoats with the expertise of a 19th century New England whaleman.”
“When you take a look at the White House response to all of this, in the past, I said that they have flensed their opponents, their turncoats, with the skill of a New England whaleman.”
“Wiki remembered Mrs. Hemington's big blue eyes and pretty curls, and hoped she would have the sense not to choose a whaleman when she remarried.”
“No: he desired a canoe like those of Nantucket, all the more congenial to him, being a whaleman, that like a whale-boat these coffin-canoes were without a keel; though that involved but uncertain steering, and much lee-way adown the dim ages.”
“They told me in Nantucket, though it certainly seems a curious story, that when he sailed the old Categut whaleman, his crew, upon arriving home, were mostly all carried ashore to the hospital, sore exhausted and worn out.”
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States of being
seeress, honey bucket, donkeyman, poopyhead, halfwit, vixenish, galoot, hoity toity, shitkicker, miserabilist, wanker, clueless and 261 more...
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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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yarb Whalemen make the best boats' crews in the world for a long pull, but this landing was new to them, and, notwithstanding the examples they had had, they slewed round and were hove up-- boat, oars, and men-- all together, high and dry upon the sand.
- Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, ch. 25 Sep 9, 2008