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whale-path

whale-path noun: the sea(s), the ocean(s).

Noun

whale-path

  1. (poetic) The sea(s), the ocean(s).
    • At last a ship, called by the English a "long-ship," was put at their disposal, and the men rowed away on the whale-path back to the north.1885, James Frederick Hodgetts, The champion of Odin; or, Viking Life in the Days of Old, page 134
    • Over the whale-path, over the tracts of the sea.1902, The Seafarer, Cook and Tinker's translation

Origin of whale-path

From whale + path, after Old English hranrād.

Questions about whale-path

What does whale-path mean?
Whale-path means the sea(s), the ocean(s).
What part of speech is whale-path?
Whale-path is a noun.

Words near whale-path in the dictionary

  1. whale's tail
  2. whale's way
  3. whale-backed
  4. whale-fisher
  5. whale-fishers
  6. whale-path
  7. whale-road
  8. whale-roads
  9. whaleback
  10. whalebacks
  11. whalebird

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