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

In appearance and habits it is very different from the black whale.

From Old Jack by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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

At the end of it a large, humpbacked rock showed now and again through the surf, like the fin of a black whale.

From Stella Fregelius by Haggard, Henry Rider

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