whaler
Americannoun
noun
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Also called (US): whaleman. a person employed in whaling
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a vessel engaged in whaling See factory ship whale catcher
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another word for whaleboat
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a nomad surviving in the bush without working
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short for whaler shark
Etymology
Origin of whaler
Example Sentences
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Most of the images used in the study were captured during a 1937 expedition organized and paid for by Norwegian whaler Lars Christensen.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2024
Virtually nothing was known about marine mammals of the West Coast of North America in the mid-1800s, when Charles Melville Scammon, the whaler, began meticulously documenting and measuring cetaceans, Jefferson said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2024
The big, burly youth had learned a rough-and-tumble lesson aboard the whaler.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2023
Energy companies and other explorers have found more than 600 shipwrecks or possible shipwrecks there—including, last year, a 207-year-old whaler, Industry, which was built in 1815 and sank in 1836.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 22, 2023
A few troops were attempting to right the upturned whaler.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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