Word Study
whaling
CIDE DICTIONARY
whaling, n.
The hunting of whales. [1913 Webster]
whaling, a.
Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales; as, a whaling voyage; a whaling vessel. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
whaling, n. the practice or industry of hunting and killing whales, esp. for their oil or whalebone.
Idiom
whaling-master the captain of a whaler.
THESAURUS
whaling
angling, banging, bumping, casting, colossal, dressing-down, enormous, fishery, fishing, fly fishing, gargantuan, gigantic, guddling, harpooning, hiding, immense, jigging, larruping, lathering, leathering, licking, mighty, paddling, piscation, prodigious, rod and reel, slapping, spanking, still-fishing, tanning, thumping, thundering, trawling, trolling, walloping, whacking, whopping
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