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sea-blubber
ˈsea-blubber Also 7 -blobber. [blubber n.1] † 1. The bladder-wrack. Cf. prec. 1. Obs.1681 Grew Musæum ii. §v. ii. 250 Sea-Blobber. Vesicaria marina... 'Tis a Cluster of small roundish Bladders..of a light brown colour. 2. A jelly-fish. See blubber n.1 3.1683–4 Robinson in Phil. Trans. XXIX. 478 The ...
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Blubber
Blubber differs from other forms of adipose tissue in its extra thickness, which provides an efficient thermal insulator, making blubber essential for Blubber has advantages over fur (as in sea otters) in that, though fur retains heat by holding pockets of air, the air expels under pressure (i.e., when
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Seal meat
Seal meat is the flesh, including the blubber and organs, of seals used as food for humans or other animals. States (including the Makah people of the Pacific Northwest), Canada, Greenland; the Chukchi people of Siberia, and the Bequia Island in the Caribbean Sea
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Bowleg Bill
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Jeremiah Digges, Bowleg Bill, The Sea-Going Cowboy, Viking Press. NY. 1938. The mixture of the jargon of the range and the poop-deck add to the incongruity of this beef-and-blubber comedy."
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Qulliq
Among the Netsilik if the people breached certain taboos, Nuliajuk, the Sea Woman, held the marine mammal in the basin of her lamp. be filled with whale blubber in communities where there was whaling.
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Sea otter
Unlike most other marine mammals, the sea otter has no blubber and relies on its exceptionally thick fur to keep warm. Having only returned to the sea about 3 million years ago, sea otters represent a snapshot at the earliest point of the transition from fur to blubber.
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Drift whale
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Certain beaches are well known as likely spots for whales, and other gifts from the sea, to wash up: drift seeds, driftwood, and latterly sea In 2002, fourteen residents of a Bering Sea fishing village ate muktuk (skin and blubber) from a beluga whale which they "estimated had been dead for at
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Flensing
Both parties only cut off the blubber and the head, leaving the rest of the carcass to polar bears and sea birds. On each side of the whale there were large chocks built into the deck so the carcass wouldn't roll in a rough sea.
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Seal finger
Seal finger, also known as sealer's finger and (from the Norwegian for "blubber"), is an infection that afflicts the fingers of seal hunters and other This Mycoplasma was isolated in an epidemic of seal disease occurring in the Baltic Sea.
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Sea monster
Marine monsters can take many forms, including sea dragons, sea serpents, or tentacled beasts. in such a way that the blubber detaches from the body, forming featureless whitish masses that sometimes exhibit a hairy texture due to exposed strands
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Tvøst og spik
evolved to make heavy use of animal products from households, such sheep, cows, geese, chicken and ducks, and maritime produce, from all kinds of fish and sea birds to, from time to time, whale meat and blubber.
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Amsterdam Island (Spitsbergen)
Its highest point is Hiertabreen, at 472 meters above sea level. The percentage of the island covered in ice is 11.5%. It came to be called Smeerenburg (Dutch for "Blubber Town"). The settlement went into decline in the 1640s, and was abandoned sometime before 1660.
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Whale meat
Many organizations, including Greenpeace and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, have criticised the whale trade for preying on endangered species, Anti-whaling efforts
Groups such as the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have attempted to disrupt commercial whaling with varying degrees of success
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Try pot
Early on in the history of whaling, vessels had no means to process blubber at sea and had to bring it into port for processing. In the 18th- and 19th-century New England whaling industry, the use of the trywork allowed ships to stay at sea longer and boil out their oil.
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Trywork
In the 18th and 19th century New England whaling industry, the use of tryworks on whaling ships allowed them to stay at sea longer. The ability to use tryworks at sea thus enabled the Yankee whaling industry to flourish.
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