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- noun Plural form of
whaleship .
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Examples
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Comparatively few whaleships know of Moby Dick, and fewer yet have encountered him.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Here, on the whaleships, they had beheld their last white men and equipped themselves with the last white man's grub, consisting principally of salt and smoking tobacco.
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Comparatively few whaleships know of Moby Dick, and fewer yet have encountered him.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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The very whalebone had been home-shaped of the raw material from the whaleships traded for in hides and tallow.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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In a business as dangerous as whaling, boats were so frequently damaged in their encounters with whales that many whaleships were equipped with as many as three spare boats.
Excerpt: In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick 2000
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They discovered that whaleships are not the leviathans of the deep which Mysie had supposed them, being very rarely of a thousand tons, and averaging five hundred.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various
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Here, on the whaleships, they had beheld their last white men and equipped themselves with the last white man's grub, consisting principally of salt and smoking tobacco.
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The very whalebone had been home-shaped of the raw material from the whaleships traded for in hides and tallow.
Chapter 6 1913
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Here, on the whaleships, they had beheld their last white men and equipped themselves with the last white man's grub, consisting principally of salt and smoking tobacco.
The Red One Jack London 1896
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But while in the ordinary merchantman there are decidedly "no more cats than can catch mice," hardly, indeed, sufficient for all the mousing that should be done, in men-of-war and whaleships the number of hands carried, being far more than are wanted for everyday work, must needs be kept at unnecessary duties in order that they may not grow lazy and discontented.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886
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