Look up: whaling

1. Whaling
   Whal'ing noun The hunting of whales.
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2. Whaling
   Whal'ing adjective Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales; as, a whaling voyage; a whaling vessel.
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3. Whaling
   • (n.) The hunting of whales. • (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales; as, a whaling voyage; a whaling vessel. • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whala
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4. whaling
   the hunting of whales for food and oil. Whaling was once conducted around the world by seafaring nations in pursuit of the giant animals that seemed ... [18 related articles]
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5. Whaling
   The intentional hunting and killing of whales for the meat, blubber, oil and other products.
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6. whaling
   whaling, the hunting of whales for the oil that can be rendered from their flesh, for meat, and for baleen (whalebone). Historically, whale oil was economically the most important.Sections in this article:IntroductionEarly WhalingEarly Commercial WhalingModern WhalingAttempts at Regulation and Prote...
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7. whaling
   The hunting of whales. Whales have been killed by humans since at least the middle ages. There were hundreds of thousands of whales at the beginning of the 20th century, but the invention of the harpoon in 1870, and improvements in ships and mechanization, have led to the near-extinction of several species of whale. Commercial whaling was large...
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8. Whaling
   `Whaling` is the hunting of whales mainly for meat and encyclopedia= Encyclopædia Britannica|Britannica Online Encyclopedia |accessdate= May 16, 2010-->--> Various coastal communities have long histories of sustenance whaling and harvesting beached whales. Industrial whaling emerged with organize...
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