cachalot
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cachalot
1740–50; < French ≪ Portuguese cacholote, equivalent to cachol ( a ) pate, noggin (of obscure origin) + -ote augmentative suffix
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On its blue expanse he beholds but a streak of white, the frothing water in the vessel’s wake, now and then a “school” of tumbling porpoises, or the “spout” of a cachalot whale.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South 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
Bits of the bones of the gigantic squid on which the cachalot feeds.
From The Sea Bride by Ben Ames Williams
The large toothed-whales, including the cachalot or sperm whale, and also the Ziphius-like beaked whales, live upon cuttle-fish.
From More Science From an Easy Chair by Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
This morning we raised fish, a big school of cachalot, about three mile to leeward.
From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer
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