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