whale-fisher

Noun

whale-fisher (plural whale-fishers)

1. One who hunts whales.
   • At the first sound, Swertha fell into an agreeable dream of a young whale-fisher, who some forty years before used to make such a signal beneath the window of her hut; at the second, she waked to remember that Johnnie Fea had slept sound among the frozen waves of Greenland for this many a year, and...1822, Walter Scott, The Pirate
   • The larger the game the more keen the excitement ; and no elephant-hunter's eagerness ever surpasses the zest of the whale-fisher when once started in pursuit of the prey.1878, Jules Verne, Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen