finner
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of finner
C18: from fin 1 + -er 1
Example Sentences
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The finner, or great black fish, is feared by whalers in general.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
In this particular instance, however, it was a humpback whale, but as Orca Gladiator treats the humpback and "right" whale as he does the lengthy "finner," the extract from the article is quite applicable.
From A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904 by Louis Becke
The finner whale is the species most commonly taken.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
During the day we had seen adelie and ringed penguins, also several humpback and finner whales.
From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
Scrag′-whale, a finner whale, having the back scragged.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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