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(whale)
Any of several species of large sea mammals of the order Cetacea.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (figuratively) Something, or someone, that is very large.
* 1920 September, “A Reformed Free Lance” (pseudonym), “Doctoring a Sick Encyclopedia”, in The Writer , Volume XXXII, Number 9,
* 1947 May 19, John Chamberlain, “Will Clayton and his Problem”, in ,
(gambling) (In a casino) a person who routinely bets at the maximum limit allowable.
* 2003 , Jeff Wuorio, How to Buy and Sell (Just About) Everything ,
* 2004 , Norm Clarke, Vegas Confidential: Norm! Sin City's Ace Insider 1,000 Naked Truths, Hot Spots and Cool Stuff ,
* 2008', Deke Castleman, '''''Whale Hunt in the Desert ,
To hunt for whales.
To flog, to beat.
One who hunts whales; a person employed in the whaling industry.
* 1890 , , XL, 511,
* 1986 June 5, Jeremy Cherfas, What price whales?'', '' ,
* 2001 , Lawrence J. Cunningham, Janice J. Beaty, A History of Guam ,
A seagoing vessel used for hunting whales.
* 1863 , , Sylvia?s Lovers , v.
* 1995 , Robert F. Rogers, Destiny?s Landfall: A History of Guam ,
* 2001 , Arabella McIntyre-Brown, Liverpool: The First 1,000 years ,
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,
* 2003 , Mark Thornley, Veda Dante, Peter Wilson, Action Guide: Surfing Australia , Tuttle Publishing, HK,
* 2008 , Alan Murphy, Justin Flynn, Olivia Pozzan, Paul Harding, Queensland & the Great Barrier Reef , 5th Edition, Lonely Planet,
(Australian slang, dated) A sundowner; one who cruises about.
* 1893 August 12, ,
As a verb whaled
is past tense of whale.As a noun whaler is
one who hunts whales; a person employed in the whaling industry.whaled
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(head)whale
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(wikipedia whale) (Cetacea)Noun
(en noun)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
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- It was a whale of a job. It took two months, and the fair blush of youth off my cheeks.
page 120:
- But when it comes to his business life and business career, is not as other men; he is such a whale of a lot better that it suggests a qualitative as well as a quantitative difference.
- These are often no-limit games as maximum bets cramp a whale ’s style.
- A handful of the richest whales routinely play for $200,000 a hand. Australian media mogul Kerry Packer not only regularly bets that much, but has plunked down $200,000 bets for the dealer as a form of a tip.
- The high roller who had the most ferocious reputation for trying to run the business of the casinos where he played, before he died on December 26, 2006, was Kerry Packer. In the casino world, Packer was the Prince of Whales .
Derived terms
* blue whale * fin whale * have a whale of a time * humpback whale * killer whale * narwhal * pilot whale * sperm whale * whale catfish * whaler * whale fall * whalefish * whalelore * whale shark * whale watching * whalingSee also
(other associated terms) * baleen * cachalot * cete * orca * gam * pod * rorqualVerb
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(en noun)- For a whaler?s wife to have been “?round the Cape” half a dozen times, or even more, was nothing extraordinary.
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.
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.
- But o? Thursday t? Resolution, first whaler back this season, came in port.
page 98,
- The log of the Emily Morgan , an American whaler that visited Guam many times, described Spanish control:.
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.
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.
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.
page 219,
- You can also take a dip with lemon, whaler and other nonpredatory sharks.
- the nomad, “the whaler ,” it is who will find the new order hostile to his vested interest of doing nothing.