Harpoon

Word HARPOON
Character 7
Hyphenation har poon
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Harpoon"

What do we mean by harpoon?

A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish. noun

To strike, kill, or capture with or as if with a spearlike weapon. transitive verb

To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon.

A missile weapon used in capturing whales and large fish, and either thrown by hand or fired from a gun. See harpoon-gun. noun

A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, flat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun. noun

A kind of hayfork, consisting of a bar with hinged barbs at one end and a loop for a rope at the other end, used for lifting hay from the load by horse power. noun

A gun used in the whale fishery for shooting the harpoon into a whale. noun

To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon. transitive verb

A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish. noun

A harmonica. noun

To hunt something with a harpoon. verb

Spear with a harpoon verb

A spear with a shaft and barbed point for throwing; used for catching large fish or whales; a strong line is attached to it noun

A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish.

A harmonica.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Harpoon

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The word "harpoon" in example sentences

For the Inuits, anything with more range than a spear or harpoon is a quantuum leap. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There is, moreover, a kind of harpoon which is shot from a gun, but being difficult to adjust, it is seldom used. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

A harpoon is a sort of a spear, to which a long rope is attached. ❋ Various (N/A)

Each man was sure his harpoon was the first thrown; so with hearts full of fury and fear, the brave whalers of ❋ Various (N/A)

The bomb-lance and gun are all very well; but the harpoon is the real weapon on which the whaleman must depend. ❋ W. Bertram Foster (N/A)

In the head of the harpoon is a pointed shell which explodes in the body of the whale, dealing a mortal wound, and at the butt end a thick rope is secured. ❋ Sven Anders Hedin (1908)

Attached to the harpoon was a very long coil of line, made also of braided seal-skin, and wound about a short, upright peg behind the hoop. ❋ Unknown (1887)

The harpoon is a triangular, or rather a heart-shaped barbed weapon, somewhat larger than a man's head, and in the centre about as thick as his knuckles. ❋ Hall, Basil, 1788-1844 (1862)

The harpoon is the weapon usually employed, though sometimes they are caught in strong nets stretched across the mouths of rivers or the narrow arms of lakes. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

A harpoon is a long and sharp iron, made like a spear, so that when it strikes the whale, it goes in deep, and you cannot pull it out. ❋ Unknown (1835)

It may be well, here, to explain to the uninitiated reader, that the harpoon is a barbed spear, with a small, but stout cord, or whale line fastened to it. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

Let's call a harpoon a harpoon: the more people intervene in nature, the less Green they really are. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because the particular kind of harpoon was patented, scientists can narrow down when the whale was shot and get an estimate of its age. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Driven to desperation by this unexpected discomfiture, Max next made sundry attempts to spear and "harpoon" him, all of which signally failed, so that at the end of the brief interval of fine weather, this patriarch of the lake, whose wisdom seemed to be proportioned to his venerable age and gigantic size, remained proof against all the arts and machinations of his chagrined and exasperated enemy. ❋ Richard Archer (N/A)

These fish are taken on rocks and under water, where they are struck by a kind of harpoon hooks and drawn out. ❋ Johann Jakob Von Tschudi (1853)

She had talked about it to Kinraid and her father in order to cover her regret at her lover's accompanying her father to see some new kind of harpoon about which the latter had spoken. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

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