whaleship

English

Etymology

From whale +‎ ship.

Noun

whaleship (plural whaleships)

1. A ship used for hunting whales.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

     For many years past the whaleship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth. She has explored seas and archipelagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed.