Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An extremely tough and sinewy substance resembling blub ber, but destitute of oil, which lies between the upper jaw and the junk of a sperm-whale.
- noun A West Indian rubiaceous shrub, Portlandia grandiflora, having whitish flowers 3 to 8 inches long.
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Examples
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The Republicans 'knight-on-a - white-horse is basically a tobaco lobbyist with a tv gig.
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After being severed from the whale, the white-horse is first cut into portable oblongs ere going to the mincer.
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First comes white-horse, so called, which is obtained from the tapering part of the fish, and also from the thicker portions of his flukes.
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Godfrey the thane, by the only daughter of the house of Aluric, whose forefathers held the white-horse banner at the fatal fight where our shield was broken and our sword shivered.
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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This substance was contained in spongy cells held together by layers of dense white fibre, exceedingly tough and elastic, and called by the whalers "white-horse."
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886
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After being severed from the whale, the white-horse is first cut into portable oblongs ere going to the mincer.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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First comes white-horse, so called, which is obtained from the tapering part of the fish, and also from the thicker portions of his flukes.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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After being severed from the whale, the white-horse is first cut into portable oblongs ere going to the mincer.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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First comes white-horse, so called, which is obtained from the tapering part of the fish, and also from the thicker portions of his flukes.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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After being severed from the whale, the white-horse is first cut into portable oblongs ere going to the mincer.
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