whalemann.
/ˈhweɪlmən/ 1. = whaler n. 1.
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society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > whale-hunter > [noun]
whale-hunter1598
whale-killer1613
whale-striker1613
whaler1684
whaleman1704
whalefisherman1724
whale-fisher1773
sperm-whaler1834
whalermana1894
1704 B. Church Let. 5 Feb. in Entertaining Passages Philip's War (1716) ii. 101 And Whale-men then will be very serviceable in this Expedition, which having a promise made to them, that they shall be released in good season to go home a Whaling in the Fall.
1850 H. Melville White-jacket iv. 23 He launched out..into tremendous laudations of whalemen; declaring that whalemen alone deserved the name of sailors.
1898 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ xvi. 198 A smarter whaleman than Mistah Jones did not live.
2. = whaler n. 2.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > whaling vessel
Greenlandman1659
whale-boat1682
whalefisherman1724
whaleman1767
whaler1806
spouter1815
whale-ship1820
catcher1829
sperm-whaler1834
blubber-boiler1851
plum-puddinger1851
five-boater1887
bay whaler1905
1767 M. Cutler Jrnl. Apr. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 19 Whalemen fitted out for the Straits of Belle Isle, and Davis Straits.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast vii. 55 The ship was the Cortes, whaleman, of New Bedford.
1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 254 There were two or three whalemen in port.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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