whaler

noun

Definition of whalernext
as in whaleboat

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Recent Examples of whaler Of the 20 or 21 whalers who left Nantucket on the Essex, only eight survived. — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024 The cast of Swept Away, the about-to-open Broadway musical that follows four whalers on an odyssey of survival and salvation, are a tight crew. — Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2024 In Nauru's history, it has been used as a supply shop for European whalers, according to CIA.gov. — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2024 From whalers and pirates to the intrepid explorers who made their home here, the islands have stories to tell. — Josh Rivera, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for whaler
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whaler
  1. whaleboat
  2. banker
  3. lugger
  4. ferry
  5. hooker
  6. shrimper
  7. dragger
  8. seiner
Noun
  • In Robert Brill’s set, the stage is shaped like a half-pipe with rungs, so that cast members scramble, pitch, tumble, and row flimsy whaleboats over massive waves.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
  • On July 20, 1775, Major Joseph Vose and sixty Continental soldiers landed on Little Brewster in nimble whaleboats.
    — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
Definition of whaleboat
Noun
  • Hardy grew up in the South Side Beverly neighborhood, where his father was a banker who at one time worked for Beverly Bank & Trust.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Company lawyers and company investment bankers declined to comment on the value of the customer data.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2025
Definition of banker
Noun
  • The upshot will be a mid-sized load-lugger that will hammers to 62mph in 3.6 seconds and from zero to 124mph in only 12.9 seconds, so the Europeans had better pack that luggage in snugly.
    — Michael Taylor, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger, trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes.
    — Ann Benoit, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
Definition of lugger
Noun
  • The half-hour ferry ride there from the Chinese territory’s main island was bustling with day trippers.
    — Erin Mendell, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Three years after the space shuttle's retirement in 2011, NASA awarded multibillion-dollar contracts to Boeing and SpaceX to build ferry ships to carry astronauts to and from the space station.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2025
Definition of ferry
Noun
  • This is how an institution fractures, a culture declines, and Hollywood’s love for hookers and thieves degrades itself.
    — Armond White, National Review, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Really nice hookers like Lucia get life-altering windfalls.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025
Definition of hooker
Noun
  • The Real Deal Even when shrimpers like Nacio innovate to become more efficient, their product can still be undercut by false advertising.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Fight started with an Alabama shrimper who was denied benefits during COVID Derek Bateman, an independent shrimper in Alabama, spent months trying to appeal after being denied benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Definition of shrimper
Noun
  • Do the foot draggers in the legislature not know or understand the present and future risk?
    — Staff report, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Over the past week Germany, the perennial foot-dragger, has done what the U.S. has spent decades politely asking it to do: begin to disconnect its energy sector from the Russian grid and commit to spending seriously on its own defense.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2022
Definition of dragger
Noun
  • Take a scenic cruise along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Above the seiner, a seaplane soars towards the coastal mountains rising up and fading into the distant mist.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023
Definition of seiner

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