cachalot
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cachalot
1740–50; < French ≪ Portuguese cacholote, equivalent to cachol ( a ) pate, noggin (of obscure origin) + -ote augmentative suffix
Example Sentences
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The sperm whale, the cachalot, trusts to his jaw; he bites; and his enemy is not the men in the boat, but the boat itself.
From The Sea Bride by Williams, Ben Ames
Since that hurried retreat from their moorings by the carcass of the cachalot they had not eaten anything like a regular meal.
From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Reid, Mayne
The crane itself consisted of the long iron arrow and socket of one of the harpoons found in the carcass of the cachalot.
From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Reid, Mayne
Scores of sharks,—both of the blue and white species,—attended by their pilots and suckers, were swimming around the carcass of the cachalot.
From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Reid, Mayne
The “case” of the cachalot contained enough to have roasted all the sharks within a circle of ten mile around it; and, to all appearance, there were hundreds of them inside that circumference.
From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Reid, Mayne
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