Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The business or practice of hunting, killing, and processing whales.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or business of taking whales; the pursuit of whales; whale-fishing: much used in compounds: as, a whaling-ship; a whaling-voyage; whaling- grounds; bay -whaling; shore-whaling.
- Big, unusual, or extraordinary of its kind; strapping; whopping; whacking: as, a whaling lie.
Wiktionary
- n. The practice of hunting whales.
- n. The practice of spotting whales.
- n. informal A beating.
- v. present participle of whale.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The hunting of whales.
- adj. Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales
Examples
“Several recent phishing attacks have been directed specifically at senior executives and other high profile targets within businesses, and the term whaling has been coined for these kinds of attacks.”
“At present only research whaling is allowed, but a lot of whales hunted become food under the guise of ‘scientific’ research.”
Global Voices in English » Japan: Whaling. Scientific research or commercial hunting?
“Since 1986, when the International Whaling Commission (IWC) 's moratorium was enforced, commercial whaling is prohibited in Japan.”
Global Voices in English » Japan: Whaling. Scientific research or commercial hunting?
“We could stop whaling tomorrow by sending in a military force to protect the whales and kill the whalers, but would such a show of force make people understand that whaling is wrong?”
“Humpbacks are still recovering from long-term whaling losses, but Japan and Denmark still want the IWC to let them hunt small numbers each year.”
“Australia may intervene in Japanese whaling row: minister”
“In recent decades, a broadening international consensus has begun to emerge in the policies of those institutions concerned with "whaling" - in itself an unpleasant term for what should accurately be called whale hunting - and in particular that of the IWC, created in 1946 to co-ordinate the different national industries.”
Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk
“Their legacy of scientific self-interest persisted, though, in a loophole allowing "scientific" whaling, which is exploited today by Japanese whalers.”
“It is not called whaling but porpoise-hunting, from the mistaken idea that the little white whale is a porpoise, instead of the smallest kind of whale, running up to over twenty feet in length.”
“Speaking after meeting Julia Gillard in Tokyo tonight, Mr Kan said there was a firm and longstanding friendship between the two nations which would not be diluted by the dispute over whaling, which is pending before the court.”
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frogapplause See spear phishing. Jun 4, 2011