Word Finder - whale

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Any of several species of large sea mammals of the infraorder Cetacea.

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Something, or someone, that is very large.

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Something, or someone, that is excellent.

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In a casino, a person who routinely bets at the maximum limit allowable.

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An investor who deals with very large amounts of money.

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(by extension) A video game player who spends large amounts of money on premium content.

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To hunt for whales.

Those hoses pack a whale of a wallop.

He's a personable young man and a whale of a basketball player.

Fella had my shoe size and his wife gave me a whale of a deal.

The bay is noted as a centre of the whale and seal fishery.

In the past two centuries with very little technology, we've come from whale oil and wood to solar and nuclear.

It'll smell like a whale died in here now, and I've only got three more Tahoes that survived the hurricane.

The sailor reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human.

The principal industries are refineries for preparing whale and seal oil and saw-mills.

Yet the fact that the long, soft Conchoderma auritum stands exposed on the Coronula, sometimes ten on one, indicates that the whale can have little chance of evicting its tenants, even at the expense of rubbing off the eighteen flattened horns of its own skin embedded in cavities round the domed base of the Coronula shell.

The port was an early seat of the whale fisheries.

The position of the archipelago, at the " cross-roads " of the North Pacific, has made it commercially important since the days of the whale fishery, and it has a practical monopoly of coaling, watering and victualling.

The seal and whale fisheries, once vigorously prosecuted, are extinct, but the fishing-fleets for the home waters and the Newfoundland grounds are considerable.

When separated and pressed, this deposit is known as whale tallow, and the oil from which it is removed is distinguished as pressed whale-oil; this, owing to its limpidity, is sometimes passed as sperm-oil.

Seals frequent Nightingale and Inaccessible Islands, and the whale (Balaena australis) is found in the adjacent waters.

When softened by whale oil, it can be woven on machines to make coal sacks, horse bags and carpet backing.

An exploding harpoon is fired into the whale's body.

A few, on the other hand, have a very restricted range, the Greenland right whale (Balaena mysticetus) being, for instance, limited to the zone of the northern circumpolar ice, while no corresponding species occurs in the southern hemisphere.

The pigmy whale (Neobalaena marginata), for instance, has only been met with in the seas round Australia, New Zealand and South America, while a beaked whale (Berardius arnouxi) appears to be confined to the New Zealand seas.

I now feel so welsh that on a recent trip to Japan I had to think twice when asked to eat to whale blubber.

Born Free cares about the welfare of every individual animal from the tiniest ant to the gigantic blue whale.

The Life of Mammals describes and illustrates the remarkable diversity of mammals from the giant blue whale to the miniscule pigmy shrew.

The factory ship processes whales into whale oil, whale meat, bone meal, meat extract and other byproducts.

Fancy imitating whale noises during sex in a multi-story car park?

As we moved slowly toward the blows a whale arched its back, showing a strongly falcate dorsal fin.

Its whale hunters armed with explosive harpoons are on a six-week mission backed by their government to kill 38 minkes.

I refer of course to the now infamous whale tail.

My children live with their dad Single parent, dad doesn't pay maintenance Are whale tail thongs sexy?

A man in the group I 'm sitting with says " I'll give sixpence to the first person who sees a whale ".

After whale watching and coming face to face with a black bear, one is bound to be hungry.

Whalsay, "whale island" (975), measuring 5 m.

Yell (2483), separated from the north-east coast of Mainland by Yell Sound, is the second largest island of the group, having a length of 17 m., and an extreme width of 62 m., though towards the middle the voes of Mid Yell and Whale Firth almost divide it into two.

The whaling industry was formerly prolific off the west coast but decayed when the right whale nearly disappeared.

The leaders, one of whom was Captain David P. de Vries, wished " to plant a colony for the cultivation of grain and tobacco as well as to carry on the whale fishery in that region."

Drift whales were utilized in the earliest years of the colony, and shore boating for the baleen (or " right ") whale - rich in bone and in blubber yielding common oil - was an industry already regulated by various towns before 1650; but the pursuit of the sperm whale did not begin until about 1713.

Various sorts of whale are found, and the whaling industry reached the height of its importance about the middle of the 19th century.

For more than a century whale fishing was practically the sole industry of Martha's Vineyard.

North of the divide between the St Lawrence system and Hudson Bay there are many large rivers converging on that inland sea, such as Whale river, Big river, East Main, Rupert and Nottaway rivers coming in from Ungava and northern Quebec; Moose and Albany rivers with important tributaries from northern Ontario; and Severn, Nelson and Churchill rivers from the south-west.

It was also for a long period the chief seat of the Greenland trade, but the Arctic seal and whale fishery is now extinct.

The whale is often seen in the Gulf of Oman; porpoises and swordfishes are common.

The site of the old city resembles a whale's back in shape; it slopes gently to its western extremity at Punta Sarandi and to the water's edge on either side.

There is a gunnery establishment in the harbour on Whale Island, the area of which has been increased to nearly 90 acres by the accretion of material excavated from the dockyard extension works, and various barracks including those of the royal marine artillery at Eastney, beyond Southsea.

The Cyamidae afflict the giant whale by nibbling away its skin; the Chelura terebrans is destructive to submerged timber.

In the 17th century the mackerel and whale fisheries were the basis of economic life; the latter gave way later to the cod and other fisheries, but the fishing industry is now relatively unimportant.

Sometimes both whale and mineral oils are used, but in most cases the whale oil is omitted.

The smaller, of the same date, is simpler, and has curious representations of Jonah and the whale.

The whale fishery also has greatly fallen off; there is no profit on the oil and the whales are sought for the baleen alone; they are much less numerous too than they once were, and have to be sought farther and farther north.

Those frequenting the coast feed on dead fish, crabs and an occasional stranded whale, though they are also a danger to the sheep and cattle kraal.

During the life of the whale the contents of these cavities are in a fluid condition, but no sooner is the "head matter" removed than the solid wax spermaceti separates in white crystalline flakes, leaving the oil a clear yellow fluid having a fishy odour.

The whaling industry came into importance towards the close of the 19th century, and stations for the extraction of the oil and whalebone have been established at several points, under careful regulations designed to mitigate the pollution of water, the danger to livestock from eating the blubber, &c. The finner whale is the species most commonly taken.

Try the smoked whale carpaccio with chive sauce and salad!