hair seal

noun

hair seal

any earless seal, esp the harbour seal, having a coat of stiff hair with no underfur

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First recorded in 1815–25

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The hair seal, the otter, and the sea lion were found by the thousand.

Many hair seal were seen about the island, and three were killed.

It is made from the skins of the hair seal, the supply coming from all parts of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Of sealskins there are two distinct classes, the fur seals and the hair seals.

Some were small cakes, which had been formed that winter, and upon some of these arctic birds and hair seals sported.

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