whaling port

noun

1. a home port for whaling vessels.

Example Sentences

It was an important whaling port early in the 18th century, and became prominent as a watering-place late in that century.

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However, New Bedford, Massachusetts, is the greatest whaling port in the world.

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He was born in Fairhaven, a fishing village just over the bridge from the great whaling port, New Bedford.

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From that year New Bedford began to assume her distinctive character as the whaling port preëminent of the world.

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New Bedford, greatest whaling port in the world; pop., 33,393.

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