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单词 thresher whale
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thresher whale
b. More fully thresher whale. The killer whale, Orcinus orca. Cf. thrasher n.1 2b. Obsolete.In early use perhaps conflated or confused with sense 2a.
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1787 in P. G. King Hist. Rec. New S. Wales (1893) II. 534 As ye whale swims along, the thresher watches when the whale is going to spout. At that time he throws himself out of the water, and falls with the greatest force on the whale's head or shoulder.
1890 J. Ashton Curious Creatures Zool. 239 The Orca is probably the Thresher whale.
1909 W. T. Grenfell Labrador xiv. 356 The thresher, or killer whale (Orca gladiator),..is the fiercest of all our sea animals, and is a perfect buccaneer and pirate.
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