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# whaler

«whaler» in Mova's school dictionary: **A ship used for hunting whales** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a whaler, whalers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A ship used for hunting whales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whaler/#m1)

2) A person who hunts whales, especially on such a ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whaler/#m2)

3) A whaleboat, a long narrow rowing boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whaler/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in history and stories, such as "Moby-Dick". Whalers once hunted whales for oil, meat and bone. Today most countries have banned commercial whaling to protect whales, though a few countries still allow some. In history and geography lessons, places like Nantucket (USA) and Hobart (Australia) were whaling ports. Phrases: "an old whaler", "whaler's harpoon".

### examples

- The old whaler sailed from Nantucket in 1840. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whaler/#x1)
- The whalers rowed out with their harpoons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whaler/#x2)
- Today most countries protect whales from whalers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whaler/#x3)
- In the museum we saw a whaler's harpoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whaler/#x4)
- Captain Ahab in "Moby-Dick" is a whaler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whaler/#x5)
- The whaler came home after three years at sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whaler/#x6)

### note

Countable: a whaler, whalers. Homophone trap: "whaler" and "wailer" (someone wailing) sound alike. Whaling is the activity; a whaler is the ship or the person.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «whaler» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whaler/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.