Whale-path

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The sea(s), the ocean(s). poetic

    "At last a ship, called by the English a "long-ship," was put at their disposal, and the men rowed away on the whale-path back to the north."

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"At last a ship, called by the English a "long-ship," was put at their disposal, and the men rowed away on the whale-path back to the north."

Etymology

From whale + path, after Old English hranrād.

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