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caa'ing whale
[< dial. ca' call; from the practice of "calling" or driving such whales ashore for slaughter]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a blackfish, Globicephala melaena, of the Atlantic coast.
Quotations
1909
The toothed whales carry the teeth in their lower jaw, the most valuable of this lot being the Spermaceti or Sperm Whale or Cachalot, the Pilot Whale or Ca'ing Whale. . . .
1958
For generations the small-boat men of Southern Bay . . . have been chasing the potheads--commonly known as pilot or caa'ing whales and blackfish. . . .
1964
. . . the killer whale does not have as melancholy a spirit as his cousin the blackfish or Caaing whale.