'Whaling' definitions:
Definition of 'Whaling'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Whaling'
From: GCIDE
- Whaling \Whal"ing\, n. The hunting of whales. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Whaling'
From: GCIDE
- Whaling \Whal"ing\, a. Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales; as, a whaling voyage; a whaling vessel. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'whaling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- angling,
- banging,
- bumping,
- casting,
- colossal,
- dressing-down,
- enormous,
- fishery,
- fishing,
- fly fishing,
- gargantuan,
- gigantic,
- guddling,
- harpooning,
- hiding,
- immense,
- jigging,
- larruping,
- lathering,
- leathering,
- licking,
- mighty,
- paddling,
- piscation,
- prodigious,
- rod and reel,
- slapping,
- spanking,
- still-fishing,
- tanning,
- thumping,
- thundering,
- trawling,
- trolling,
- walloping,
- whacking,
- whopping
Words containing 'Whaling'
- Whale,
- Whaled,
- Beaked whale,
- Bone whale,
- Fin whale,
- Gray whale,
- Humpback whale,
- Jupiter whale,
- Killer whale,
- Pike whale,
- Pilot whale,
- Polar whale,
- Right whale,
- Scrag whale,
- Social whale,
- Sperm whale,
- Spermaceti whale,
- Sulphur whale,
- Thrasher whale,
- Toothed whale,
- Unicorn whale,
- Whale Pass,
- Whale bird,
- Whale fin,
- Whale fishery,
- Whale louse,
- Whale shark,
- Whale shot,
- Whale's bone,
- Whale's tongue,
- White whale,
- baleen whale,
- black whale,
- blue whale,
- bottlenose whale,
- bowhead whale,
- finback whale,
- greenland whale,
- grey whale,
- minke whale,
- piked whale,
- sei whale,
- whale oil,
- whale sucker,
- whalebone whale,
- whaling gun,
- whaling ship,
- Pygmy right whale,
- Pygmy sperm whale,
- Whale Pass, AK,
- dwarf sperm whale,
- Sperm-whale porpoise,
- bottle-nosed whale,
- The Denticete including the dolphins and sperm whale which have teeth Another suborder Zeuglodontia is extinct The Sirenia were formerly included in the Cetacea but are now made a separate order,
- The Mysticete or whalebone whales having no true teeth after birth but with a series of plates of whalebone see Baleen hanging down from the upper jaw on each side thus making a strainer through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed