finner

Historical Examples

• The finner, or great black fish, is feared by whalers in general.

  The Sailor's Word-Book

  William Henry Smyth

• The species most commonly seen was the Finner; after that the Blue Whale.

  The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2

  Roald Amundsen

• Had Miss Finner been mistaken, after all, and was it not they whom she had seen before the door?

  Mrs. Vanderstein's jewels

  Mrs. Charles Bryce

• The idea of playing the finner like a trout was abandoned once and for all.

  Through Arctic Lapland

  Cutcliffe Hyne

• The finner had said he was too fat to count; but that is where the finner was wrong.

  The Treasure of the Isle of Mist

  W. W. Tarn