Whalebone is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WHALEBONE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a light flexible substance consisting of the baleen plates of whales
• an elastic horny substance which grows in a series of thin parallel plates in the upper jaw of some whales and is used by them to strain plankton from the seawater.
• strips of whalebone, formerly used as stays in corsets and dresses
• horny substance hanging from the upper jaw of toothless whales
• A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen.
• a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets

Words related to WHALEBONE

baleen8 whalebones18

Words that contain WHALEBONE

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How to use WHALEBONE in a sentence

• It was whalebone of his bone, or something of that sort.
• The stout little roan was gathering its muscular limbs under it, and stretching to the gallop as if it were steel and whale-bone instead of flesh and blood.
• When we came back, we had our large ship all full of oil and whalebone.
• We got the oil and the whalebone out of the whales which we had caught.
• There was a long, low shed at Seal Cove, where all the fish oil, whalebone, blubber, ivory, skins, and other produce of the sea harvest were stored pending ocean shipment.
• Yet he was as lithe as a boy, and he was as tough as whalebone, walking all day over the hills or rowing on the sea without turning a hair.
• There they would get tangled among those long narrow strips or plates of whale-bone, with their fringed edges.
• Every little while the whale would lazily close her mouth, thrust forward her enormous fat tongue, and force the water out through this whalebone sieve of hers.
• You mean whalebone? Is whalebone hair? So it seems.
• He was a wiry fighter, who bent and sprang like a whalebone, but I was heavier and had taken him utterly by surprise.
• Whaling vessels were fitted out in Sydney, and it was found that money could be made by oil and whalebone as well as by rum.
• The rope he brought was made of plaited bamboo, was as thick as the middle finger, and as tough as whalebone.
• Her cheeks glowed red-hot under her coy velvet mask, her heart thumped against the whalebone prison of her stays.
• I wonder if he thinks I buy the best whalebone for him to court with.
• The whalebone Divinity in the Home Town passed out of his Life.
• If a sufficiently flexible band of metal or a stiff piece of whalebone be fixed at one end in a vice, and then sharply pulled to one side and suddenly let go, a sound results.
• He thought at first it was only a black crow sitting on a whalebone.
• Over the whalebone frame was stretched the wet elastic hide of walrus or sea-lion.
• I made a cross-bow out of a piece of whalebone, and did very well without him.
• A black petticoat envelopes the form from the waist, and over that is thrown a singular veil, gathered into a hood, and kept out with a piece of whalebone.
• These steel ribs and this whalebone make it more like a piece of harness than anything else I can think of.
• There were, however, others, smaller and of a special character, made in ivory of the walrus and elephant, of horn and whalebone, besides those of metal.
• A whale does not tend to vary in the direction of producing feathers, nor a bird in the direction of developing whalebone.
• Their whalebone petticoats outdo ours by several yards circumference, and cover some acres of ground.
• More than five hundred men were employed, and the oil and whalebone they sent away in the year were worth at least L50,000.
• In the seam of one of the remaining divisions is inclosed a piece of whalebone, which is drawn over the head, and forms a perfect arch, leaving the head and neck bare.
• She kept it sewed inside the lining of her bodice, all among the bits of whalebone that made her stand up straight.
• Poor Ethan had traded off two compasses only the day before for whalebone spears and skin breeches, neither of which knew the north star from the ace of spades.

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