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Definition of harpoon in English: harpoonnoun hɑːˈpuːnˌhɑrˈpun A barbed missile resembling a spear that is attached to a long rope and thrown by hand or fired from a gun, used for catching whales and other large sea creatures. （捕鲸等大型海洋动物的）鱼镖 Example sentencesExamples - The Inuit still love in the remote Greenland in an ‘ice age culture that began 4000 years ago ’, and they hunt with harpoons, wear skins and fur of hunted animals and travel by dog sleds.
- Meals consisted of fish caught with bone harpoons and cooked over a small hearth, as well as rations of palm sugar and fruit.
- He could throw a 40-pound harpoon with line attached as easily as an athlete could handle a javelin.
- Bone was used extensively to make wedges, adzes, hammers, spear heads with link shafts, barbed points and harpoons, eyed needles, and jewellery.
- With a grenade-tipped harpoon, the whale takes about thirty minutes to die.
- The Thule already had characteristics of culture common to Inuit culture: the use of dogs, sleds, kayaks, and whale hunting with harpoons.
- On May 17, 1999, a week into the hunt, the Makah killed a 30-tonne gray whale, striking it with harpoons and then killing it with a gunshot to the back of the head.
- The Norse, because of their bad attitude towards the Inuit did not adopt useful Inuit technology, so the Norse never adopted harpoons, hence they couldn't eat whales like the Inuit.
- The book vividly recollects a season spent with Tongans, who through economic necessity, still hunt whales from small boats with hand-held harpoons.
- The harpooneer not only must be ready to throw the harpoon at a moment's notice; he also must keep rowing with everyone else, and be yelling encouragement to everyone else.
- If he throws the harpoon, the whale must be directly in front of his kayak, about 30 feet away, close but not too close - or the animal's powerful dive will submerge him and he will likely drown.
- Animal rightists hurled themselves between the harpoons and the whale in an effort to save its life.
- Modern whaling began in 1868, when the harpoon gun and explosive harpoon (which explodes inside the whale) were invented.
- The whale-line is the length of rope attached to the harpoon, which connects the boat to the whale it is following.
- Makah whalers threw harpoons on three occasions, but the harpoons did not attach to a gray whale on any of these attempts.
- The size and speed of blue whales once served to discourage human whalers in the days of sail-powered ships and hand-thrown harpoons.
- The harpoonist leaps from the bows on to the whale, plants his harpoon and slides into the water before scrambling back on board.
- The line attached to the harpoon, which keeps the whale boat in contact with the whale, it snaps tight when the harpoon has been thrown successfully.
- People have hunted swordfish throughout history using harpoons and conventional fishing lines.
- The station relied heavily on orcas to herd the southern right whales to the harpoons at the ready.
Synonyms spear, trident, arrow, dart, barb rare gaff, leister
verbhɑːˈpuːnˌhɑrˈpun [with object]Spear with a harpoon. 用鱼镖刺 Gilbert's father harpooned a five-metre basking shark Example sentencesExamples - Japan claims it needs to harpoon the whales and dissect them to determine migration patterns as well as gain data on their feeding and breeding habits.
- Government-owned radio RTHK said Lever tried to harpoon the croc but missed because it was too far away.
- When a whale was sighted in the bay, boats from the rival stations would race to be the first to harpoon the animal.
- For a monarch caterpillar, ingesting milkweed poisons is not a surefire defense against a predatory stinkbug, which harpoons its victims before sucking up the body fluids.
- While I was there, I was invited aboard a catcher boat, which hunts and harpoons whales.
Derivativesnoun hɑːˈpuːnəˌhɑrˈpunər Foremost among the whalers was the harpooner and among the great harpooners the name of Ollivierre stands out. Example sentencesExamples - The two men became fast friends, both signing on as harpooners aboard the Pequod, a Quaker-owned whaler out of Nantucket.
- Into the early twentieth century, before the decline of the whaling industry, Cape Verdeans were prominent on the Whalers, serving in every capacity from ship captains to harpooners to shipmates.
- In one 1995 piece, ‘The Whale Hunters,’ he tells of the time that a harpooner on the Caribbean island of Bequia, Athneal Ollivierre, was knocked out when a whale crushed the side of his boat.
- The daring and skill of these whale hunters is especially highlighted by the harpooner who balances on a platform at the front of the boat and thrusts himself from the platform, along with the harpoon, in order to add his weight to the throw.
OriginEarly 17th century (denoting a barbed dart or spear): from French harpon, from harpe 'dog's claw, clamp', via Latin from Greek harpē 'sickle'. Rhymesafternoon, attune, autoimmune, baboon, balloon, bassoon, bestrewn, boon, Boone, bridoon, buffoon, Cameroon, Cancún, cardoon, cartoon, Changchun, cocoon, commune, croon, doubloon, dragoon, dune, festoon, galloon, goon, hoon, immune, importune, impugn, Irgun, jejune, June, Kowloon, lagoon, lampoon, loon, macaroon, maroon, monsoon, moon, Muldoon, noon, oppugn, picayune, platoon, poltroon, pontoon, poon, prune, puccoon, raccoon, Rangoon, ratoon, rigadoon, rune, saloon, Saskatoon, Sassoon, Scone, soon, spittoon, spoon, swoon, Troon, tune, tycoon, typhoon, Walloon Definition of harpoon in US English: harpoonnounˌhɑrˈpunˌhärˈpo͞on A barbed missile resembling a spear that is attached to a long rope and thrown by hand or fired from a gun, used for catching whales and other large sea creatures. （捕鲸等大型海洋动物的）鱼镖 Example sentencesExamples - Animal rightists hurled themselves between the harpoons and the whale in an effort to save its life.
- On May 17, 1999, a week into the hunt, the Makah killed a 30-tonne gray whale, striking it with harpoons and then killing it with a gunshot to the back of the head.
- The line attached to the harpoon, which keeps the whale boat in contact with the whale, it snaps tight when the harpoon has been thrown successfully.
- Meals consisted of fish caught with bone harpoons and cooked over a small hearth, as well as rations of palm sugar and fruit.
- The harpoonist leaps from the bows on to the whale, plants his harpoon and slides into the water before scrambling back on board.
- The whale-line is the length of rope attached to the harpoon, which connects the boat to the whale it is following.
- Bone was used extensively to make wedges, adzes, hammers, spear heads with link shafts, barbed points and harpoons, eyed needles, and jewellery.
- If he throws the harpoon, the whale must be directly in front of his kayak, about 30 feet away, close but not too close - or the animal's powerful dive will submerge him and he will likely drown.
- People have hunted swordfish throughout history using harpoons and conventional fishing lines.
- He could throw a 40-pound harpoon with line attached as easily as an athlete could handle a javelin.
- The Inuit still love in the remote Greenland in an ‘ice age culture that began 4000 years ago ’, and they hunt with harpoons, wear skins and fur of hunted animals and travel by dog sleds.
- Modern whaling began in 1868, when the harpoon gun and explosive harpoon (which explodes inside the whale) were invented.
- The book vividly recollects a season spent with Tongans, who through economic necessity, still hunt whales from small boats with hand-held harpoons.
- The harpooneer not only must be ready to throw the harpoon at a moment's notice; he also must keep rowing with everyone else, and be yelling encouragement to everyone else.
- The Thule already had characteristics of culture common to Inuit culture: the use of dogs, sleds, kayaks, and whale hunting with harpoons.
- The Norse, because of their bad attitude towards the Inuit did not adopt useful Inuit technology, so the Norse never adopted harpoons, hence they couldn't eat whales like the Inuit.
- The size and speed of blue whales once served to discourage human whalers in the days of sail-powered ships and hand-thrown harpoons.
- The station relied heavily on orcas to herd the southern right whales to the harpoons at the ready.
- Makah whalers threw harpoons on three occasions, but the harpoons did not attach to a gray whale on any of these attempts.
- With a grenade-tipped harpoon, the whale takes about thirty minutes to die.
Synonyms spear, trident, arrow, dart, barb
verbˌhɑrˈpunˌhärˈpo͞on [with object]Spear with a harpoon. 用鱼镖刺 Gilbert's father harpooned a five-meter basking shark Example sentencesExamples - Japan claims it needs to harpoon the whales and dissect them to determine migration patterns as well as gain data on their feeding and breeding habits.
- For a monarch caterpillar, ingesting milkweed poisons is not a surefire defense against a predatory stinkbug, which harpoons its victims before sucking up the body fluids.
- When a whale was sighted in the bay, boats from the rival stations would race to be the first to harpoon the animal.
- While I was there, I was invited aboard a catcher boat, which hunts and harpoons whales.
- Government-owned radio RTHK said Lever tried to harpoon the croc but missed because it was too far away.
OriginEarly 17th century (denoting a barbed dart or spear): from French harpon, from harpe ‘dog's claw, clamp’, via Latin from Greek harpē ‘sickle’. |