whaler
Maritime mammal pursuer
A whaler is a ship or person engaged in hunting whales.
The industry that once supplied oil for lamps and baleen for corsets has largely ended, making whalers historical figures in most contexts: The old whaler told stories of months at sea.
In Australian slang, a whaler is a tramp or itinerant worker.
Barbed spear for whales
- pursuitAct of chasing something
- chaseRapid following of quarry
- quarryPit for extracting rock
- preyAnimal being hunted
flensing · blubber · spermaceti · ambergris · baleen · rendering · oil · bone
- Moby-DickEpic whaling novel
- PequodFictional whaling ship
- IshmaelCast-out firstborn son
- NantucketMassachusetts island resort
Ahab · Queequeg · leviathan · Starbuck · Coffin · whaleship · scrimshaw · epic
Temporary prohibition or delay
- GreenpeaceEnvironmental activism organization
- endangeredAt risk of extinction
- threatenedExpressed intent to harm
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
quota · ban · sanctuary · protection · activism · protest · illegal · poaching
Ship that processes seafood
- schoonerMulti-masted sailing craft
- barqueMulti-masted sailing vessel
- steamshipBoiler-propelled water vessel
- brigShipboard detention quarters
clipper · ketch · rigging · mast · deck · helm · bow · stern
Massachusetts island resort
- New BedfordMassachusetts port city
- LahainaWest Maui port town
- bowheadArctic whale species
- nineteenth centuryYears 1801-1900
oil lamp · corset · perfume · industrial · Atlantic · Pacific · Arctic · Antarctic
harpoon
Barbed spear for whales
prey · flensing · blubber · spermaceti · ambergris · baleen · rendering · oil · bone · ivory
Melville
Ahab · Queequeg · Nantucket · leviathan · Starbuck · Coffin · whaleship · scrimshaw · epic · saga
moratorium
Temporary prohibition or delay
- GreenpeaceEnvironmental activism organization
- endangeredAt risk of extinction
- threatenedExpressed intent to harm
extinction · quota · ban · sanctuary · protection · activism · protest · illegal · poaching · regulation
factory ship
Ship that processes seafood
- schoonerMulti-masted sailing craft
- barqueMulti-masted sailing vessel
- steamshipBoiler-propelled water vessel
brig · clipper · ketch · rigging · mast · deck · helm · bow · stern · crow's nest
Nantucket
Massachusetts island resort
- New BedfordMassachusetts port city
- LahainaWest Maui port town
- bowheadArctic whale species
nineteenth century · oil lamp · corset · perfume · industrial · Atlantic · Pacific · Arctic · Antarctic · pelagic
- fishing jobsfisherman, fisher, deckhand, fishing captain, boat captain
- poacherspoacher, elephant poacher, night hunter, fur trapper
- Whalersfactory ship, chaser, Pequod, Essex
- boatsboat, ship, canoe, kayak, yacht
- vehiclescar, bus, truck, van, bike
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
whalershrimper
One who catches small crustaceans
trawler · crabber · lobsterman · fish farmer · clam digger
- killer whaleApex ocean predator
- whale oilRendered marine mammal fat
- blue whaleLargest mammal on Earth
- whale watchingObserving ocean giants
- white whaleConsuming, elusive pursuit
- commercial whalingBusiness of catching cetaceans
whale, whales, whaling, whalers, whaleboat, whalemen, whaleman