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whaler Noun 1. a ship used for hunting whales 2. a person whose job is to hunt whales
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And she would have been posted really as "overdue," or maybe as "missing," had she not been sighted in a snowstorm, vaguely, like a strange rolling island, by a whaler going north from her Polar cruising ground. When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two. Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration. |
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