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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During all that day, the sailor and the ex-cook of the Pandora kept watch from the summit of the dead cachalot.
From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid
The sperm or cachalot whale is a dangerous and bold fighter and is perhaps the most interesting of all cetaceans.
From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Thomas Carson
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 Mayne Reid
Most of them are finbacks, though these are always accompanied by numbers of humpbacks and a few "right" whales—the most valuable of all the southern cetacea except the spermaceti or cachalot.
From A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904 by Louis Becke
Ben assured them that the “case” of a cachalot of the largest size,—such as the one beside them,—often contained five hundred gallons of the liquid spermaceti!
From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid
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