whaling port
noun
a home port for whaling vessels.
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How to use whaling port in a sentence
It was an important whaling port early in the 18th century, and became prominent as a watering-place late in that century.
However, New Bedford, Massachusetts, is the greatest whaling port in the world.
Elsie's Winter Trip | Martha FinleyHe was born in Fairhaven, a fishing village just over the bridge from the great whaling port, New Bedford.
Frenzied Finance | Thomas W. LawsonFrom that year New Bedford began to assume her distinctive character as the whaling port preëminent of the world.
New Bedford, greatest whaling port in the world; pop., 33,393.
Alden's Handy Atlas of the World | John B. Alden
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