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- noun Plural form of
harpooner .
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Examples
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The crew of a whale ship usually consists of forty to fifty men, comprising several classes of officers, such as harpooners, boat-steerers, line-managers, &c. together with fore-mastmen, landmen and apprentices.
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Sea Shepherd had pursued the fleet through treacherous waters, hurling rancid butter on to the decks of whaling ships and positioning its boats between the harpooners and their prey.
Japan whaling fleet accused of using tsunami disaster funds 2011
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For over thirty years, Greenpeace has been the most outspoken opponent of commercial whaling, taking action to stop the harpooners in their home countries, at sea and in the political arena of IWC meetings and our commitment to bringing about its end in all of our oceans remains.
Philip Radford: Obama Administration Keeps Promise on Whale Conservation at International Talks 2010
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The IPA is “Small government libertarian think tank” who blame the whales for getting in the way of innocent japanese harpooners, aborigines for getting in the way of the legitimate colonial business of the King of England, forests for impeding access to all that lovely woodchip and Dr Bob Brown for global warming, if such a thing exists.
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For over thirty years, Greenpeace has been the most outspoken opponent of commercial whaling, taking action to stop the harpooners in their home countries, at sea and in the political arena of IWC meetings and our commitment to bringing about its end in all of our oceans remains.
Philip Radford: Obama Administration Keeps Promise on Whale Conservation at International Talks 2010
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Even for those who cannot do their work in bed as, for example, the professional harpooners of whales, it is obvious that the indulgence must be very occasional.
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CLANCY: We should make it clear here, still in the sights of the harpooners, the Minke whale.
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JOURNALIST: If Greenpeace or other protest boats were to try to interpose themselves between the harpooners and the whales and there were claims by the Japanese that the law of the sea or other laws had been breached, would the Oceanic Viking have a role as a potential witness to those events, recording of those events, or could it intervene in the case of a confrontation between anti-whalers and the whaling fleet?
Transcript - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs 2007
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Even for those who cannot do their work in bed as, for example, the professional harpooners of whales, it is obvious that the indulgence must be very occasional.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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Thus the Abraham Lincoln wanted for no means of destruction; and, what was better still she had on board Ned Land, the prince of harpooners.
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