Meanings (ES + gloss)
ballenero
One who hunts whales; a person employed in the whaling industry.
For a whaler's wife to have been “ 'round the Cape” half a dozen times, or even more, was nothing extraordinary.
Whalers have always overexploited their stocks, driving them to commercial extinction.[…]American whalers, operating at first from the coast and later in sea-going boats, took abou…
ballenero
A seagoing vessel used for hunting whales.
But o' Thursday t' Resolution, first whaler back this season, came in port.
Making myself at home with him, I desired to know what brought him so far from the "big smoke," and on board a whaler of all places in the world.
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