| 单词 | chafferwhale |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschaffer-whale chaffer-whale n. ‘the round-lipped whale’ (Jamieson). Π 1809 A. Edmondston View Zetland Islands II. 300 (Jam.) Delphinus Orca (Linn.), Chaffer-whale, Grampus. 1821 W. Scott Pirate I. x. 242 He is like the greedy chaffer-whale, that will change his course and dive for the most petty coin which a fisher can cast at him. [Merely taken from Edmonston, l.c.] chaffer-whale A kind of whale found in the North Atlantic (identified variously as an orca or a type of baleen whale, perhaps the bowhead). Also chaffer-whale. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of huddon?c1370 whirlpoolc1450 thirlepollc1460 physeter1581 whirl-about1605 whirl-whale1606 thurlhead1610 black whale1615 blackfish1688 bonefish1752 pollack1774 Algerine1849 sea-boar1859 oil-butt1937 a1777 G. Low Tour Orkney & Schetland (1879) 86 In my return to Selivoe, saw one of the Whales called here Chaffers. 1809 A. Edmondston View Zetland Islands II. 300 Delphinus Orca,..Chaffer-whale, Grampus.—This animal is met with at all seasons, is said to be mischievous, and frequently to follow boats. When this whale follows a boat and alarms the crew, the fishermen have a practice of throwing a coin of any kind towards it, and they allege that the whale disappears in search of the coin. 1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands 421 Large porpoises roll among the waters; and sometimes appear the Delphinus orca, or Chaffer, anciently the dread of boatmen. 1905 A. R. Forbes Gaelic Names Beasts 226 The round-lipped whale is called grampus, also chaffer. 2009 K. Gillham & J. Baxter Whales, Dolphins, & Porpoises (Sc. Nat. Heritage) 47/1 Chaffer, from Orkney and Shetland, ‘round-lipped whale’. < as lemmas |
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