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hair seal

noun

  1. any of various seals having coarse hair and no soft underfur.


hair seal

noun

  1. any earless seal, esp the harbour seal, having a coat of stiff hair with no underfur
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hair seal1

First recorded in 1815–25
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Example Sentences

One finds old kettles and vats used for trying out the oil of the hair seal and the sea lion, as well as of the whales that were once numerous.

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.

There are fewer hair seals in the southern than in the northern seas.

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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