harpooner

American  

[hahr-poon-er] / hɑrˈpun ər /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Kent frames his illustration of Daggoo, the African crewman, darting a sperm whale from directly behind the harpooner, depicting him in muscular silhouette.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From National Geographic

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

From Salon

“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.

From Literature

I never been out on Fin Chaser, but I know all about it because my dad used to be the best harpooner on the crew.

From Literature