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bow-head|ˈbəʊhɛd| [f. bow n.1 + head n.] In full bow-head whale. The Arctic right whale, Balæna mysticetus.
1887Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Sept. 2/2 A bow-head whale preparing to ‘sound’. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 523/2 The ‘bowhead’ of the Okhotsk Sea and Behring Strait. 1896Kipling Seven Seas 129 Hath he..Spoke on the ice with the Bow-head—followed the Sabre-tooth home? 1938Geogr. Jrnl. XCII. 371 The mammoth bowhead whale. |