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Whaleback. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Whaleback [f. WHALE sb. + BACK sb.]

1   1.  An arched structure over the deck of a steamer; = TURTLE-BACK 1.

2 1886.  Times, 20 April, 10/2. He was standing under the whale-back when he heard a bumping noise and immediately felt a slight shaking.

3   2.  A kind of steam vessel having a spoon bow and the main decks covered in and rounded over, suggesting the back of a whale.

4 1891.  Pall Mall Gaz., 10 June, 2/2. The Americans claim that, in Captain Macdougall’s steel ‘whalebacks,’ they possess the universal ship of the future.

5   3.  Geol. A large mound of the shape of the back of a whale.

6 1893.  Sir H. H. Howorth, Glacial Nightmare, II. 774. Glaciers cannot explain the mounds called eskers, kames, or whalebacks.

7   4.  attrib. or as adj. Furnished with a whaleback (sense 1); of the shape of the back of a whale.

8 1891.  Daily Graphic, 24 July, 14/1. The first ‘whaleback’ boat which has crossed the Atlantic arrived at Liverpool on Monday.

9 1894.  Engineer, 13 July, 33/3. A new craft is expected to take part in the yacht races at Galveston. She was built in Fort Worth, and may be classed as a whaleback yacht.

10 1903.  Daily Chron., 29 July, 4/4. Beneath a hot sun Belgrade lies bleaching on her whaleback promontory.

11   Hence Whalebacked a., shaped like a whale’s back; Whalebacker, a whaleback steamer.

12 1879.  Daily News, 6 Nov., 5/7. Whale-backed station of the London and South Eastern Railway Company.

13 1897.  Daily Graphic, 24 July, 14/1. These ‘Whalebackers’ as they are termed offer very little resistance to the sea.

14 1903.  Kipling, Five Nations, Sussex, 19. Our blunt, bow-headed, whale-backed Downs.

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