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thar she blows

thar she blows is the alternative form of there she blows.

Meaning of there she blows

Phrase

there she blows

  1. The traditional hail of the lookout in a whaler (whaling ship) when sighting the spouting water thrown up by a whale surfacing.
    • "There she blows! there! there! there! she blows! she blows!"
      "Where-away?"
      "On the lee-beam, about two miles off! a school of them!"1851, Herman Melville, chapter 47, in Moby Dick

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What is thar she blows the alternative form of?
Thar she blows is the alternative form of there she blows.

Words near thar she blows in the dictionary

  1. thapsane
  2. thapsanes
  3. thapsigargin
  4. thapsigargins
  5. thar
  6. thar she blows
  7. Tharaka
  8. Tharangambadi
  9. Tharau
  10. Tharawal
  11. Tharbogang

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