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gur·ry (gûr

, g

r

)

n.

Fish offal.

[Originally a whaling term for the refuse left over from processing whale blubber, perhaps from dialectal gurry, diarrhea.]

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Gurry, so called, is a term properly belonging to right whalemen, but sometimes incidentally used by the sperm fishermen.

Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context

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