harpooner

[hahr-poon-er]

noun

1. a person who uses a harpoon, especially to fish or to hunt marine animals.

Example Sentences

The slow swimmers were found close to shore and floated once dead, so it was easy for harpooners to kill them and retrieve the body.

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I could easily imagine the harpooner as an eloquent representative of a nation in danger of being swallowed up by rising waters.

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For nearly 50 years, over oceans of campaign speeches and seas of television ads, GOP candidates have promised to fill the Supreme Court with enough harpooners to slay the beast.

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“Because they fought back when whalers harpooned them. Right in these very waters, actually. Back in the 1800s. Now, the other types of whales? Well, they’d die pretty conveniently once the harpooner stuck ’em.

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The idea is, the long pulpit puts the harpooner right over the fish so he can strike down at them before they feel the boat.

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