Whaling

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Whala \Whala\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whaled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Whaling}.] [Cf. {Wale}. ]
     To lash with stripes; to wale; to thrash; to drub. [Prov.
     Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] --Halliwell. Bartlett.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Whaling \Whal"ing\, n.
     The hunting of whales.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Whaling \Whal"ing\, a.
     Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales; as, a
     whaling voyage; a whaling vessel.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "whaling":
     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