Whaling is valid Scrabble Word

Is whaling a scrabble word?
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7 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for WHALING in dictionary:

NOUN:

the business of catching whales
the practice or industry of hunting and killing whales for their oil, meat, or whalebone
hunting of whales for food and oil
of Whala
The hunting of whales.

ADVERB:

extremely

ADJECTIVE:

Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales; as, a whaling voyage; a whaling vessel.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to engage in the hunting of whales (large marine mammals)
the industry of hunting and processing whales

Words related to WHALING

whale11 whaled13 whalery16 whales12 whalings15

Words that contain WHALING

whalings15 antiwhaling18

How to use WHALING in a sentence

Whether they combine whaling with sealing is not positively known, but probably they do.
No similar precautions are adopted in the merchant or whaling service.
Being desirous to do something to support himself, and having no one to advise him, he shipped for a whaling voyage.
Ten years in Patagonia and ten years of whaling had not improved his aspect or his morals.
Notwithstanding the great success which attended the beginning of the whaling, it was six months before the Rancocus was loaded, and ready to sail for Hamburgh with her cargo.
Walker remained behind, preferring to superintend the whaling affairs at home.
This done, the governor stood in towards Whaling Bight, in order to ascertain the state of things at that point.
The whaling business was carried on with great success, and many connected with it actually got rich.
Little David Loomis, only eight years old, was permitted by his father, Captain Loomis, to accompany him on a whaling expedition.
They set sail in good spirits, and it was from the headland yonder that we heard their cheers, as they sailed out on their whaling expedition.

The share of the crew of a whaling vessel was one-fiftieth of the value of the oil and bone.
Whether our author entered on his whaling adventures in the South Seas with a determination to make them available for literary purposes, may never be certainly known.
But what a dismal prospect awaited us in this quarter! The longevity of Cape Horn whaling voyages is proverbial, frequently extending over a period of four or five years.
He was not satisfied, though he had given the range-rider such a whaling as few men could stand up and take.
Just because he gave me the whaling of my young life.
After leaving the navy he had become one of the owners of a whaling vessel, and in it had made one or two voyages to Newport.
The Munroe, an American whaling brig, arrived this evening.
We were accustomed, every spring, to get our earliest news from the civilised world through American whaling vessels, which resort at that season of the year to the Okhotsk Sea.
As the latter stood awaiting execution and consumption, by an extraordinary stroke of fortune a whaling ship ran into the bay.
They learned to be ashamed of some of their more odious habits, and to respect the pluck and sense of fair play shown by their whaling neighbours.
On one occasion thirty-five large whaling ships were counted as they lay off its beach in the bay.
So also had another Frenchman, Langlois, the captain of a whaling ship, who professed to have bought 300,000 acres of land from the natives of Banks Peninsula in the South Island.
Although Pickering is several miles from the sea some of the more important people of the town were for many years closely interested in the whaling industry.
In the whaling and fishery business we shall see that an almost pure communism prevailed.
By 1650 all the northern colonies had begun to pursue the business of shore whaling to some extent.
The whaling towns were populated by women, children, and old men.
As a rule the voyage to the Pacific whaling waters was round Cape Horn, though occasionally a vessel made its way to the eastward and rounded the Cape of Good Hope.
Curiously enough, there did not begin to be a literature of whaling until the industry went into its decadence.
In enterprises of this character the system of profit-sharing, already noted in connection with whaling, obtained.
Accordingly, Sergeant Whaling, a non-commissioned officer whose term of service was about to expire, with twelve privates, was detached to perform the service.
Whaling was a brave man and a strict soldier, or he would never have dared to approach the fort in such a way.
There are still whaling vessels in our times, but not so many as there used to be.
As it was, a large section of them, with the Irishman at their head, had a project on hand for murdering their officers, and converting the ship into a whaling vessel.

Similar words containing WHAL without suffix ing

whale11 whaled13 whaler12 whales12 whally15 narwhal13 whalers13 whalery16 narwhale14 narwhals14 whaleman16 whalemen16 whalings15 narwhales15 whaleback23 whaleboat17 whalebone17 whalelike19 whaleries15 whalebacks24 whaleboats18 whalebones18 antiwhaling18

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