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gurry

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gur·ry  (gûr, gr)
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.
 
 
 
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