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whaler 1. a person employed in whaling 2. a vessel engaged in whaling 3. Austral a nomad surviving in the bush without working whaler [′wāl·ər] (civil engineering) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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And she would have been posted really as "overdue," or maybe as "missing," had she not been sighted in a snowstorm, vaguely, like a strange rolling island, by a whaler going north from her Polar cruising ground. When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two. Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration. |
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