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n. - A ship engaged in hunting for an aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea

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  • That first night with us on board the whaler was a fearful time.
  • In the pictures here were it a normal circumstance, the whaler is the give way vessel.
  • The whaler was a kind of pirate-miner - an excavator of oceanic oil, stoking the furnace of the Industrial
  • A most important contrivance belonging to a whaler is the crow's-nest, which I may describe as a sentry-box at the mast-head.
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