whaler

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whal·er /ˈweɪlə $ -ər/ noun [countable]  1. BODSOsomeone who hunts whales 捕鲸者2. TTWDSOa boat used to hunt whales 捕鲸船

Examples from the Corpus

whaler• In the 1960s, the Soviet Union built the Sovetskaya Rossiya, a whaler the size of an aircraft carrier.• Biology played an important role in southern exploration, for many of the early explorers were sealers and whalers.• Brave whalers were pitted against the mysterious powers of the deep, as represented by the huge whale.• The Hawaiians had no names for whales and the old whalers never found them around the islands.• Later, he owned a share in two other whalers.• The whalers spring into the sea and the boat is crushed beneath the hull.

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whaler
whal‧er /ˈweɪlə $ -ər/ noun [countable]
1. someone who hunts whales
2. a boat used to hunt whales

whalerBrE /ˈweɪlə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈweɪlər/ 🔊 nouna ship used for hunting whales 捕鲸船a person who hunts whales 捕鲸人