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whale catcher

noun

  1. a vessel engaged in the actual harpooning of whales
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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After a decade of whaling, he worked on one of the final whale catcher vessels which worked out of Grytviken.

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Griffin didn’t foresee what that new understanding would mean for himself, as he became the world’s most famous whale catcher.

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In fact, moreover, there was not an old whale catcher on board who did not now and then congratulate himself that the schooner was steering toward the tropics, and would soon leave behind her that fierce, destructive river of dry, penetrating polar air.

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