whaler

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈweɪlə/    美 /ˈweɪlɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who hunts whales; any person employed in the whaling industry.
    — Near-synonym: whaleman
  2. A seagoing vessel used for hunting whales.
    — Near-synonym: whaleship
  3. One who whales (flogs or beats).
  4. A large, strong person. slang
  5. Something of unusually great size, a whopper, a whacker. slang
  6. Any shark of the family Carcharhinidae; a requiem shark. Australia
    — The whalers (or requiem sharks) are one of the largest and best known family of sharks. Worldwide there are 48 species in 12 genera. However, relatively few species are on the Great Barrier Reef.
  7. A sundowner; one who cruises about. Australia,dated,slang
    — the nomad, “the whaler,” it is who will find the new order hostile to his vested interest of doing nothing.

词形变化

whalers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bronze whaler Murrumbidgee whaler whaler's delight

词源

From whale + -er. In sense 1, displaced Old English hwælhunta (literally “whale hunter”).
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