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whaler | hat |

As a noun whaler

is one who hunts whales; a person employed in the whaling industry.

As a verb hat is

has.

whaler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who hunts whales; a person employed in the whaling industry.
  • * 1890 , , XL, 511,
    • For a whaler?s wife to have been “?round the Cape” half a dozen times, or even more, was nothing extraordinary.
  • * 1986 June 5, Jeremy Cherfas, What price whales?'', '' , page 36,
    • Whalers' have always overexploited their stocks, driving them to commercial extinction.American ' whalers , operating at first from the coast and later in sea-going boats, took about 200 000 right whales in addition to humpbacks and grays.
  • * 2001 , Lawrence J. Cunningham, Janice J. Beaty, A History of Guam , page 170,
    • The whalers' brought a new way of life. They brought a chance for travel. Many Chamorros traveled to London and the United States. Over eight hundred Chamorro ' whalers settled in Honolulu.
  • A seagoing vessel used for hunting whales.
  • * 1863 , , Sylvia?s Lovers , v.
    • But o? Thursday t? Resolution, first whaler back this season, came in port.
  • * 1995 , Robert F. Rogers, Destiny?s Landfall: A History of Guam , page 98,
    • The log of the Emily Morgan , an American whaler that visited Guam many times, described Spanish control:.
  • * 2001 , Arabella McIntyre-Brown, Liverpool: The First 1,000 years , page 79,
    • But the Golden Lion'' was ambushed by a Naval frigate thinking that a whaler?s''' crew would be useful pressed men. The '''whaler?s''' crew didn?t agree, and there was a bloody skirmish on shore between the press gang and the crew of the ''Golden Lion'' which caused such a scandal that from then on ' whalers? men were exempt from conscription.
  • One who whales (flogs or beats).
  • (slang) A large, strong person.
  • (slang) Something of unusually great size, a whopper, a whacker.
  • (Australia) Any shark of the family Carcharhinidae; a requiem shark.
  • * 1997 , John Ernest Randall, Gerald R Allen, Roger C. Steene, Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef , 2nd Edition, page 17,
    • The whalers (or requiem sharks) are one of the largest and best known family of sharks. Worldwide there are 48 species in 12 genera. However, relatively few species are on the Great Barrier Reef.
  • * 2003 , Mark Thornley, Veda Dante, Peter Wilson, Action Guide: Surfing Australia , Tuttle Publishing, HK, page 264,
    • The whaler shark family, which includes the grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos''),silvertip (''Carcharhinus albimarginatus''), bull shark (''Carcharhinus leucas'') and bronze whaler (''Carcharhinus brachyurus ) are fast moving, territorial and have bitten divers snd surfers in the past.
  • * 2008 , Alan Murphy, Justin Flynn, Olivia Pozzan, Paul Harding, Queensland & the Great Barrier Reef , 5th Edition, Lonely Planet, page 219,
    • You can also take a dip with lemon, whaler and other nonpredatory sharks.
  • (Australian slang, dated) A sundowner; one who cruises about.
  • * 1893 August 12, ,
    • the nomad, “the whaler ,” it is who will find the new order hostile to his vested interest of doing nothing.

    Derived terms

    * whaler's delight

    References

    * * * E. E. Morris, Australian English , 1898 English terms with homophones

    hat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
  • *
  • *:There was a neat hat -and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  • (lb) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
  • *1993 , Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter , Hal Leonard Corporation (2000), ISBN 978-0-634-00927-3, p.121:
  • *:My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother.
  • (lb) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
  • # The lottery or draw itself.
  • #:
  • (lb) A hat switch.
  • *2002 , Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL , p.139:
  • *:The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats , and balls.
  • *1997 October 6th, “ Patricia V. Lehman]” (user name), [https://groups.google.com/group/rec.antiques/topics?hl=en rec.antiques] (Usenet newsgroup), “[https://groups.google.com/group/rec.antiques/browse_thread/thread/67b2bb8b89588055/8496fc478c032593?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22hat%22#8496fc478c032593 Re: Unusual Mark – made in Cechoslovakia]”, [https://groups.google.com/group/rec.antiques/msg/8496fc478c032593?hl=en&dmode=source&output=gplain Message ID: <34390399.BD7@umich.edu>#1/1
  • *:I’lll have to leave it up to antiques experts to tell you when objects were marked that way, but I can tell you it’s called a “hacek” (with the hat' over the “c” and pronounced “hacheck”.) It is used to show that a “c” is pronounced as “ch” and an “s” as “sh.” Sometimes linguists just call it the “' hat .”
    • Hyponyms
    * See also

    Derived terms

    {{der3, at the drop of a hat , bowler hat , brick in one's hat , hang one's hat on , hard hat , hatband , hatnote , hat parade , hatpin , hat trick , hatstand , hatter , home is where you hang your hat , put one's name in the hat , take one's hat off to , talk through one's hat , throw one's hat in the ring , pass the hat , under one's hat , wear too many hats , woolly hat}} (-)

    See also

    * take one's hat off to

    External links

    * ("hat" on Wikipedia)

    Anagrams

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