whale-boatn.
/ˈweɪlbəʊt/, U.S. /ˈ(h)weɪlˌboʊt/ (a) A long carvel-built boat, sharp at both ends, and steered with a rudder or an oar, used in whale-fishing. (b) A boat of this kind carried as a life-boat by large passenger-steamers and warships.
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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
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > boat attendant on larger vessel > [noun] > ship's boat > types of
float-boat1322
cocka1400
cockboat1413
longboat1421
cogc1430
cog boat1440
espyne1487
jolywat1495
barge1530
fly-boat1598
gondola1626
cocket-boat1668
yawl1670
whale-boat1682
pinnace1685
launch1697
jolly-boat1728
cutter1745
gig1790
pram1807
jolly1829
whaler1893
1682 Connecticut Public Rec. III. 318 How cam you up into these parts? In a whale boat, wth Ben Gaylord and one Perkins.
1721 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. XXXV. 143 A sufficient Army..provided with..a sufficient number of whale-boats for passage by water.
1756 R. Rogers Jrnls. (1769) 13 Our rendezvous was appointed at Albany, from thence to proceed in four whale-boats to lake George.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller (1849) iv. iv. 415 A picked crew of daring fellows set off for her in a whale-boat.
1871 Good Words 12 713 Having come to her moorings, she is immediately surrounded by a multitude of whale-boats.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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