whale (n.)
- angle
- baste
- bastinado
- beat
- belt
- benthos
- birch
- bob
- buffet
- cane
- cetacean
- clam
- club
- cowhide
- cudgel
- cut
- dibble
- dinosaur
- dolphin
- drive
- elephant
- fingerling
- fish
- flagellate
- flail
- flax
- fry
- gig
- hide
- hippo
- hippopotamus
- horsewhip
- hulk
- jack
- jacklight
- jig
- jumbo
- kipper
- knout
- lace
- lash
- lather
- leather
- leviathan
- lick
- mammoth
- man-eater
- mastodon
- minnow
- monster
- nekton
- net
- paddle
- panfish
- plankton
- pommel
- porpoise
- rawhide
- salmon
- scourge
- seine
- shark
- shrimp
- spank
- spin
- sponge
- strap
- stripe
- switch
- tan
- thrash
- thump
- thumper
- torch
- trawl
- trim
- troll
- truncheon
- wallop
- welt
- whip
- whop
- whopper
whale (v.)
- angle
- baste
- bastinado
- beat
- belabor
- belt
- birch
- bob
- buffet
- cane
- clam
- club
- cowhide
- cudgel
- cut
- dibble
- drive
- drub
- fish
- flagellate
- flail
- flog
- fly-fish
- fry
- fustigate
- gig
- hide
- horsewhip
- hulk
- jack
- jacklight
- jig
- kipper
- lace
- larrup
- lash
- lather
- leather
- lick
- net
- paddle
- pistol-whip
- pommel
- pummel
- scourge
- seine
- shark
- shrimp
- smite
- spank
- spin
- sponge
- still-fish
- strap
- stripe
- swinge
- switch
- tan
- thrash
- thump
- torch
- trawl
- trim
- troll
- trounce
- wallop
- welt
- whip
- whop
For angling-rod he took a sturdy oake;
For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke;
His hooke was such as heads the end of pole
To pluck down house ere fire consumes it whole;
The hook was baited with a dragon's tale,—
And then on rock he stood to bob for whale.
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
Ham. Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
Pol. By the mass, and 't is like a camel, indeed.
Ham. Methinks it is like a weasel.
Pol. It is backed like a weasel.
Ham. Or like a whale?
Pol. Very like a whale.
