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Whaleboat

noun
1.
A long narrow boat designed for quick turning and use in rough seas.





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"Whaleboat" Quotes from Famous Books



... for this was his station. The boat's crew sprang to their stations, the whaleboat was lowered to the rail, and as the Itasca lost her headway, the boat was neatly dropped in the water. The sea had looked a bit rough from the bridge, but down at the water's edge ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... wife!" he exclaimed in surprise. "I really hate to say no to any request of yours, but I do not think it would be entirely safe for you. We are not going on the comparatively quiet waters of the harbor, but out into the ocean itself, and that in a whaleboat, and we may have very rough sailing; besides, it is not at all impossible that a man-eating shark might get into the boat alive, and, as I heard an old fisherman say ...
— Elsie at Nantucket • Martha Finley
... he placidly resumed his walk, and was soon seated in the stern-sheets of a whaleboat manned by uproarious Kanakas, himself daintily perched out of the way of the least maculation, giving his commands in an unobtrusive, dinner-table tone of voice, and sweeping neatly enough alongside ...
— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne


Words linked to "Whaleboat" :   sea boat


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