whaleback
Americannoun
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Nautical.
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a cargo vessel having a hull with a convex deck.
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a deck or cover curving upward.
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something shaped like the back of a whale, as a rounded hill or an ocean wave.
noun
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something shaped like the back of a whale
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a steamboat having a curved upper deck
Etymology
Origin of whaleback
Example Sentences
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The SS Christopher Columbus, a 362-foot-long whaleback steamer, stopped in Bayfield twice in the 1890s, once with nearly 3,000 people on board.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
Above Lyons, city of silk and the finest cooking in the world, rises the whaleback of Fourviere Hill crowned by the flamboyant Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourviere.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fontaine developed the 40's underbody from the whaleback shape that Ted Hood made famous in the heavy-displacement Little Harbor cruising yachts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her stability comes from a generous beam, a slightly harder turn of the bilges than Hood's original whaleback, and a nearly 50 percent ballast ratio.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the centre it rose to probably six feet and then fell very gradually, whaleback fashion, to the south.
From Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove
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