- a barbed spear-like missile 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。
派生词
harpooner
noun词源
early 17th cent. (denoting a barbed dart or spear)： from French harpon, from harpe 'dog's claw, clamp', via Latin from Greek harpē 'sickle'.