harpooner
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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 • Jan. 2, 2026
As Ishmael notes admiringly, the harpooner had "no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits," no tendency toward denial.
From Salon • Dec. 11, 2021
Well along in the epic of “Moby-Dick,” the master harpooner named Queequeg falls so ill that he is convinced he will die before the whaling ship Pequod returns to land.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2017
Queequeg, named after both the dog on “The X-Files” and the harpooner in “Moby-Dick,” was a tiny ball of German shepherd fuzz the first time my husband and I saw him.
From Washington Post • May 19, 2017
The Canadian harpooner Ned Land has found his window for escape.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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