Whalefisher

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of whale-fisher. alt-of, alternative

    "He promised his parents that he would watch over him as if he were his own son, and would make a clever whalefisher and sealhunter of him."

  2. 2
    A whaling ship.

    "For a Greenlander of Disko-bay, who had been with a whalefisher to Amsterdam, and came back this year, spread a rumour, that next spring many ships would come and kill all the Europeans, and all the Greenlanders too that they met with among them."

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"He promised his parents that he would watch over him as if he were his own son, and would make a clever whalefisher and sealhunter of him."

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