“whale、fishing”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

whale-fishing

释义

ˈwhale-ˌfishing
[f. whale n. + fishing vbl. n.]
The occupation of taking whales, whaling.
1580in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 460 To the end we may turne our new found land fishing or Island fishing or our whale-fishing that way.1699T. Allison Voy. Archangel 109 A Flemish Fly-boat bound to Greenland, for Whale-fishing.1722Elking View Greenland Trade (1859) 95 We can..carry on the whale-fishing trade..much cheaper than the Hollanders.1820Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. I. 257 Ice becomes exceedingly fragile towards the close of the whale-fishing season.1889C. Edwardes Sardinia xviii. 345 The industry [of tunny-fishing] is as speculative as whale-fishing or silver-mining.

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