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Harpooneer

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Har`poon`eer´    (här`pŌn`ēr´)
n.1.An harpooner.
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Noun1.harpooneer - someone who launches harpoons
skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker - a worker who has acquired special skills

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I told him that I never liked to sleep two in a bed; that if I should ever do so, it would depend upon who the harpooneer might be, and that if he (the landlord) really had no other place for me, and the harpooneer was not decidedly objectionable, why rather than wander further about a strange town on so bitter a night, I would put up with the half of any decent man's blanket.
yelled the seamen to Daggoo, but with one hand holding on to the heavy tackles, so that if the head should drop, he would still remain suspended; the negro having cleared the foul line, rammed down the bucket into the now collapsed well, meaning that the buried harpooneer should grasp it, and so be hoisted out.
 
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