whaling

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: whal=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

whaling, n. 

 The hunting of whales.  [1913 Webster]

whaling, a. 

 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