whaler

== English == === Etymology === From whale +‎ -er. In sense 1, displaced Old English hwælhunta (literally “whale hunter”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈweɪlə/ (General American) enPR: wāʹlər, IPA(key): /ˈweɪlɚ/ (without the wine–whine merger, rhotic) enPR: hwāʹlər, IPA(key): /ˈhweɪlɚ/ (without the wine–whine merger, non-rhotic) enPR: hwāʹlə, IPA(key): /ˈhweɪlə/ Rhymes: -eɪlə(ɹ) Homophone: wailer (wine–whine merger) === Noun === whaler (plural whalers) One who hunts whales; any person employed in the whaling industry. Hypernyms: worker < person Coordinate terms: fisher, fisherman Near-synonym: whaleman (nautical) A seagoing vessel used for hunting whales. Hypernyms: watercraft, vessel < vessel < vehicle Near-synonym: whaleship One who whales (flogs or beats). (slang) A large, strong person. (slang) Something of unusually great size, a whopper, a whacker. (Australia) Any shark of the family Carcharhinidae; a requiem shark. 2003, Mark Thornley, Veda Dante, Peter Wilson, Action Guide: Surfing Australia, Tuttle Publishing, HK, page 264, The whaler shark family, which includes the grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos),silvertip (Carcharhinus albimarginatus), bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) and bronze whaler (Carcharhinus brachyurus) are fast moving, territorial and have bitten divers snd surfers in the past. (Australia, slang, dated) A sundowner; one who cruises about. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== References ==== “whaler”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “whaler”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes V (Simular–Z), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. E. E. Morris, Australian English, 1898 === Anagrams === Wahler