Meaning of whalelore | Babel Free

Definitions

The knowledge, study, or science of whales.

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Examples

“Member of the Danish Rigsdag, the king's sheriff in Faroe, a man of the simplest manners and most varied knowledge and intelligence, great in whalelore and fowllore, strong in deep- sea fishing, a great gatherer of strange over-sea waifs, […]”

“A whale of a whale adventure on one of the few sailing vessels still occasionally in use⟳. The author has packed standard ingredients into this story, including a fiendish captain, detailed information on whalelore and modern whaling methods.”

“But his pretense to whalelore didn't even have⟳ an aficionado's sincerity. Grey didn't like⟳ him.”

“The project itself, in short, generates the need⟳ for figuration, itself compactly figured in the Swiss Army knife...in the amount of whalelore that might be considered, but there turns out to be no inherent limit⟳ to the number⟳ of cognitive strategies for knowledge about whalelore that might be tested.”

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