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Right whale   /raɪt weɪl/   Listen
Right whale

noun
1.
Large Arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the 'right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil.





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"Right whale" Quotes from Famous Books



... spermaceti, one barrel of the oil of which was worth about as much as the oil of three of the ordinary sort, or that of the right whale, supposing them all to yield the same quantity in number of barrels. The nature or species of the fish was easily enough determined by the spouts; the right whale throwing up two high arched jets of water, while the spermaceti throws but a single, low, ...
— The Sea Lions - The Lost Sealers • James Fenimore Cooper


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