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Definition of Shorthead
1. n. A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
Definition of Shorthead
1. Noun. (nautical archaic) A sucking whale less than one year old. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shorthead
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shorthead
Literary usage of Shorthead
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1880)
"... Peter;" sire of dam, " shorthead." ALFRED CROWTHER, Star Inn, Bridge Street,
Bury, Lancashire':'SECOND PRIZE, 51., for his white, 5 months, 3 weeks, ..."
2. English Compound Words and Phrases: A Reference List, with Statement of by Francis Horace Teall (1892)
"... 11. or a. short=coarse (a grade of wool) short=coming shorthand shorthead (a
whale) shorthorn (a bovine) shortneck (a sandpiper) short=staple, ..."
3. Glimpses of the Ages: Or, The "superior" and "inferior" Races, So Called by Theophilus E. Samuel Scholes (1905)
"... or for applying the designation " brachycephalic " to the third race, because
it is thought that in it the shorthead type of cranium prevails. ..."
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