Nantucketer

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An inhabitant of Nantucket.

    "There is a whale swimming right now who may have escaped a Nantucketer's harpoon in 1850 and a Japanese whale ship in 1950 who once heard the distant songs of 50,000 of her kind"

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"There is a whale swimming right now who may have escaped a Nantucketer's harpoon in 1850 and a Japanese whale ship in 1950 who once heard the distant songs of 50,000 of her kind"

Etymology

From Nantucket + -er.

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