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First, when used as a fin for progression; Second, when used as a mace in battle; Third, in sweeping; Fourth, in lobtailing; Fifth, in peaking flukes.
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Third, in sweeping; Fourth, in lobtailing; Fifth, in peaking flukes.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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First, when used as a fin for progression; Second, when used as a mace in battle; Third, in sweeping; Fourth, in lobtailing; Fifth, in peaking flukes.
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Thanks to the food-rich mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and warm Atlantic Ocean waters, humpback and fin whales can be seen diving, breaching, spyhopping (a whale slowly rises its head up out of the water) and lobtailing (when a whale slaps its flukes loudly onto the water surface) off the Virginia Beach coast each winter.
ajc.com - News 2010
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