whaling ship
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- noun
- /ˈweɪlɪŋ ʃɪp/
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- The book follows the life of the title character, Arthur Pym, a child who stows away on a whaling ship with his friend Augustus.
- sail-powered whaling ship
- crew of a whaling ship
- Japanese whaling ship
Examples
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Instead, they believe that 19th-century whaling ships dumped the tortoises overboard in a nearby bay once they were no longer needed as food reserves.
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A few days later, Gjoa encounters a whaling ship from San Francisco coming toward it from the west in approximately this location.
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Then I took a whaling ship north.
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The whaling ship never even slowed.
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The whaling ship logbooks I've been looking at started as incredibly detailed, analogue accounts of a voyage.
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This was the decade when Herman Melville sailed on a whaling ship, which inspired Moby Dick.
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He finds himself on another whaling ship that is soon in turmoil, and after leaving the mentally ill captain in Manila, Manjiro is made harpooner.
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They live this way for almost six months until the whaling ship John Howland, commanded by Captain William H. Whitfield, a generous and empathetic man, sails near Bird Island and rescues them.
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In the 1800s, young men set forth from the coast of Maine on whaling ships.
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Old-time whaling ships were often gone for two years at a time to the far side of the world.
Synonyms
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A large boat that carries people or goods across the sea
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A large boat or ship used for travel on water
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A ship used for catching whales
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A large ship that processes and stores fish or whales at sea
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a ship used for hunting and processing whales' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'whale' (the animal / to hunt whales) with 'ship' (a vessel), where the '-ing' form marks the activity or purpose. This agentive/genitive composition (activity + ship = ship for that activity) is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
The compound whaling ship comes from the simple idea of a whaling 'hunting whales' ship. Picture a large boat sending out small boats with harpoons to catch whales and then taking the whale apart on deck for oil, so the name means 'a ship designed or used for hunting and processing whales'.