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whalebone | whalebone whale | whaleman | whaler | whalesucker | whaling | whaling gun | whaling ship | whall | whally | wham

whaling

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)
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whal=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

whalingn. 
     The hunting of whales.  [1913 Webster]
whalinga. 
     Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales; as, a whaling voyage; a whaling vessel.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

whaling, n. the practice or industry of hunting and killing whales, esp. for their oil or whalebone.

Idiom
whaling-master the captain of a whaler.

THESAURUS

whaling

angling, banging, bumping, casting, colossal, dressing-down, enormous, fishery, fishing, fly fishing, gargantuan, gigantic, guddling, harpooning, hiding, immense, jigging, larruping, lathering, leathering, licking, mighty, paddling, piscation, prodigious, rod and reel, slapping, spanking, still-fishing, tanning, thumping, thundering, trawling, trolling, walloping, whacking, whopping

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