whaler
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- noun
- /ˈweɪlər/
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ballenero
- By 1860, the Okhotsk Sea stock was severely depleted, and whalers had already resumed whaling in the Bering Sea (Bockstoce, 1986).
- commercial whalers
- whalers and hunters
And then when they got to Prince George's Island, they landed on the wrong side and they had to hike from one side to the other to go and meet the whalers.
- And then when they got to Prince George's Island, they landed on the wrong side and they had to hike from one side to the other to go and meet the whalers.
Examples
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We are whalers.
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Look, when I arrived yesterday at the harbor, I didn't see any whaler.
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I neglected to mention it in my letter, but I was a whaler once.
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Some of our own whalers have managed to get through.
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I marry a white man, Peini; he is a whaler like you.
Fiction book (1993) -
He was a whaler, a strong man, somewhat rough in his ways.
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In the late 1830s, about twenty American whalers a year called at both Sydney and Hobart.
Academic text (1998) -
Each whaler mentioned some trepidation about the heightened risks that the reduction in sea ice had occasioned.
Academic text (2007) -
From 1860 to 1915, 565 whales were harvested by commercial whalers (Ross, 1993).
Academic text (1995) -
In the 19th century, many whalers risked their lives to hunt giant whales for oil.
Synonyms
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A person who looks for and kills wild animals for food or sport
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A person who throws a long spear to catch whales and other large sea animals
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A person who hunts whales or works on a ship that catches whales
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A person who uses a harpoon to catch whales or large fish
A person who steers a small boat during a whale hunt
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word whaler comes from the word whale and the ending -er, which means 'one who', just like baker or teacher. So a whaler is literally 'one who hunts or works with whales', which explains why it means a person who hunts whales.