Meaning of whale's road | Babel Free

Definitions

The ocean; the open sea.

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Examples

“From the land⟳ of Mermedonia are we come⟳, Borne hither from afar; our high-prowed ship Carried us o'er the whale's road with the flood⟳, Our sea-horse fleet, all girt about with speed⟳.”

“[E]ach of the transcendentalists went his own⟳ way [...] driven at last⟳ to some wayward retreat of his own⟳ - a library in a mossy house in Concard, a pitched tent along the Merrimack River, or even at sea , on the whale's road, where the white foam sprays and the horological soul dreams of its chronometrical truth.”

“Taken by themselves, the kennings are not especially witty, and calling a ship “a sea-stallion” and the open⟳ sea “the whale's road” is no great feat.”

“[H]ow likely was it that a man would take⟳ a ship alone, especially in deep water, the whale's road?”

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