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Definition of Harpooning
1. harpoon [v] - See also: harpoon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harpooning
Literary usage of Harpooning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1848)
"The first Landing-place of the Spaniards. — Island of Contoy. — Sea-birds.— Island
of Mugeres.—Lafitte.—harpooning a Turtle.—Different Kinds of Turtle. ..."
2. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society by Bombay Natural History Society (1891)
"harpooning CROCODILES. Bo. C. 3. CAPTAIN G. BUTTON-JONES, of the Deoli Irregular
Force, who is a keen sportsman, sends us an account of the method adopted ..."
3. My Apingi Kingdom: With Life in the Great Sahara, and Sketches of the Chase by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1871)
"harpooning PORPOISES.—REJOICING ON BOARD.— HOW PORPOISE MEAT TASTES. SOME years
ago I visited the beautiful island of Madeira, where we had come to ..."
4. A Voyage of Discovery: Made Under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His by John Ross (1819)
"FROM THE ATTACK OF ONE OF THESE ANIMALS. MELVILLE'S MONUMENT, AND MELVILLE BAY
DISCOVERED. harpooning A WHALE. WE continued in our several occupations at ..."
5. Specimens of the Classic Poets: In a Chronological Series from Homer to by Charles Abraham Elton (1814)
"harpooning OF THE WHALE. As arm'd for war the fishermen are seen, With three-fork'd
spears, strong darts, and falchions keen: With pointed ox-goads, ..."
6. Hawaiian Yesterdays: Chapters from a Boy's Life in the Islands in the Early Days by Henry Munson Lyman (1906)
"... Making a New Main-mast — Crossing the Equator — harpooning Porpoises and
Chasing Whales — A Week of Idle Calm — Islands of the Southern Pacific — Visits ..."
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