harpoon
noun
a barbed, spearlike missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used for killing and capturing whales and large fish.
was harpooning
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past progressiveof harpoon.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Takes me an hour or so to coil it just so in the tub, the way I seen my dad do when he was harpooning tuna.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
