ˈwhale-boat
A long carvel-built boat, sharp at both ends, and steered with a rudder or an oar, used in whale-fishing. b. A boat of this kind carried as a life-boat by large passenger-steamers and warships.
| 1756 R. Rogers Jrnls. (1769) 13 Our rendezvous was appointed at Albany, from thence to proceed in four whale-boats to lake George. 1824 W. Irving T. Trav. iv. iv. (1849) 415 A picked crew of daring fellows set off for her in a whale-boat. 1871 Good Words 713 Having come to her moorings, she is immediately surrounded by a multitude of whale-boats. |