Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that hunts or processes whales.
- n. A whaling ship.
- n. A whaleboat.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The name given in Sydney to the shark, Carcharias brachyurus, Günth. E. E. Morris, Austral English.
- n. A sundowner; one who cruises about.
- n. A person or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing whales.
- n. Something whaling, or big or extraordinary of its kind; a whopper; a whacker.
Wiktionary
- n. One who hunts whales; a person employed in the whaling industry.
- n. A seagoing vessel used for hunting whales.
- n. One who whales (flogs or beats).
- n. slang A large, strong person.
- n. slang Something of unusually great size, a whopper, a whacker.
- n. Australia Any shark of the family Carcharhinidae; a requiem shark.
- n. Australian slang, dated A sundowner; one who cruises about.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.
- n. Colloq. U. S. One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales
- n. a ship engaged in whale fishing
Examples
“In the pictures here were it a normal circumstance, the whaler is the give way vessel.”
“The whaler was the worst offender in a dirty business.”
“The iceberg Lincoln had mistaken for a whaler was a flat-top, a mile long.”
“The whaler was the swifter of the two ships, and she could soon have overhauled the other; but fearing some treachery, the captain refrained from running her down until daylight.”
“That first night with us on board the whaler was a fearful time.”
“A most important contrivance belonging to a whaler is the crow's-nest, which I may describe as a sentry-box at the mast-head.”
“The whaler was a kind of pirate-miner - an excavator of oceanic oil, stoking the furnace of the Industrial”
“The going and the coming of a "whaler" made Crip's father, Mr. John”
“God-abandoned "whaler" sits in his hungry camp at sunset and watches the empty symbols of Hope go by, and feels more God-forgotten than ever -- and thirstier, if possible -- and gets a great, wide, thirsty, quaking, empty longing to be up where those bottles come from.”
“Above Louth we picked up a "whaler", who came aboard for the sake of society and tobacco.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whaler’.
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PECH - fishing technology
anchor, berth, drop anchor, anchored floating..., artificial restoc..., bait, beam trawls, bottom gillnets, entangling nets, bottom nets, bottom-set nets, bottom pair trawl and 478 more...
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
taramea, tawings, tchicks, timider, tirades, tirings, towings, trailed, trailer, trained, trainee, trainer and 2373 more...
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sharks, rays and skates
about 330 species of sharks
about 450 species of rays and
skatesangel shark, angelfish, basking shark, blue pointer blue..., bronze whaler, bull-head shark, carpet shark, devil ray, devilfish, dog shark, dogfish, elasmobranch and 119 more...
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Scriptie: Master and Commander
Nice ambient words from the movie. (With apologies to Patrick O'Brian.) Aaaah, life at sea...aboard a hulk of the British navy in 1805...
surprise, acheron, guns, souls, oceans, battlefields, prize, burn, sink, privateer, hammock, lantern and 118 more...
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Out to Sea
If I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat.boat, ship, skiff, barge, canoe, catamaran, yacht, scow, lifeboat, launch, ketch, dory and 303 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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Tunie: Old Polina
traditional
There’s a noble fleet of whalers, a sailing from Dundee
Manned by British sailors, to take them o'er the sea,
On a western ocean passage, we started on the tr...declare, fair, sweethearts, rum, passage, terror, model, blooming, blooming, plunging, daring, canvas and 14 more...
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Wolfy's Words
wolfy, fauna, evergreen, fuzzy, smorgasborg, architecture, bedlam, endow, exceptional, extrinsic, free, excalibur and 70 more...
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travelling
dirigible, nautilus, tireme, odyssey, timeship, spaceship, jet, car, jeep, phaeton, truck, lightship and 58 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear "Make a show of resistance, panicky and disorganized, like a whaler might... Present company excepted, Mister Hogg." --Captain Aubrey, "Master and Commander" Feb 20, 2007