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Whaleman

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Someone told me that "whaleman" isn't a word! Please, would you be so kind to tell me more about the origin of this word?

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Lina


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Definitions from The Online Plain Text English Dictionary:

Whaleman

(n.) A man employed in the whale fishery.

whale·man –noun, plural -men. a person whose occupation is whaling; whaler.


[Origin: 1655–65, Americanism; whale1 + -man]
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Whaleman

Whaleman

Whale"man\, n.; pl. Whalemen. A man employed in the whale fishery. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

 
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