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whalery

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Etymology

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From whale +‎ -ery.

Noun

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whalery (plural whaleries)

  1. A whale fishery.
    • 1897, Lewis Townsend Stevens, The History of Cape May County, New Jersey:
      David Lillies testified that the whalery had ill success because Dubrois took the sloop up the River and the whale was consequently lost.