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porpoise
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the beluga or white whale.
See: white whale
Quotations
1897
Aside from the walrus hunt, Mr. Spencer is developing a large porpoise, or white whale fishery, on the very shores of Churchill harbor, where, with his nets and traps, he took last season, one hundred and ninety of these mammals, of immense size.
1931
. . . the "porpoises" were thrashing the water in their furious chase on the shoals of herring and smaller fish that fled before them.