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ˈsea-blubber
Also 7 -blobber.
[blubber n.1]
†1. The bladder-wrack. Cf. prec. 1. Obs.
1681Grew Musæum ii. §v. ii. 250 Sea-Blobber. Vesicaria marina... 'Tis a Cluster of small roundish Bladders..of a light brown colour.
2. A jelly-fish. See blubber n.1 3.
1683–4Robinson in Phil. Trans. XXIX. 478 The Urtica Marina (called Sea Gelly or Blubber, tho' it be an Animal). 1769Ann. Reg. i. 189/1 Boat-loads of what the sailors called sea-blubbers. 1845Gosse Ocean iii. (1849) 151 These Medusæ, or Sea-blubbers, as they are familiarly called, form a considerable portion of the Whale's food. |