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Whaleboat   Listen
noun
Whaleboat  n.  (Naut.) A long, narrow boat, sharp at both ends, used by whalemen.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Whaleboat" Quotes from Famous Books



... dad's a millionaire. You don't act millionary any, naow. But a dory an' craft an' gear"—Dan spoke as though she were a whaleboat—"costs a heap. Think your dad 'u'd give you ...
— "Captains Courageous" • Rudyard Kipling

... single canoe, with an outrigger, which might carry from fifteen to twenty people. Within the last few years the native carpenters have tried their hand at boat-building, and it is astonishing to see how well they have succeeded in copying the model of an English or American whaleboat, sharp at both ends, or having "two bows," as they call it. Some of them are fifty feet long, and carry well on to one hundred people. From stem to stern there is not a nail; everything is fastened in their ancient style, with cinnet ...
— Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before • George Turner



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