black whale

American  

noun

1. a black, dolphinlike whale, Globicephala melaena, of the North Atlantic.

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black whale British  

noun

1. another name for pilot whale

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Example Sentences

At dawn, when the sparkling black whale dove back into the sea, the whaleman released his harpoons.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

I was three voyages to the north; but taking the black whale counts for nothing; you must go south arter the sparmacitty if you wish to see sport.”

From Poor Jack by Marryat, Frederick

One morning they discovered that the waves had thrown up on the beach a young black whale, nearly twelve feet long.

From The Life of Phineas T. Barnum by Benton, Joel

The black whale has no teeth; but from the upper palate and jaw there hang down perpendicularly numerous parallel laminae—the baleen, or whale-bone, as it is called.

From Old Jack by Kingston, William Henry Giles

You see, the sparmacitty don’t take the harpoon quite so quietly as the black whale does; he fights hard to the last, and sometimes is very free with his jaws.

From Poor Jack by Marryat, Frederick