Whalery

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A whale fishery.

    "David Lillies testified that the whalery had ill success because Dubrois took the sloop up the River and the whale was consequently lost."

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"David Lillies testified that the whalery had ill success because Dubrois took the sloop up the River and the whale was consequently lost."

Etymology

From whale + -ery.

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