DCHP-3

sealing

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

the hunting of seals.

Quotations

1777
It is rather too shoal for sealing, yet I must try it, since there is not better hereabouts.
1951
And when I've said Mass, I go sealing if the wind is east and the ice is moving, or hunting Arctic hares, if the wind is in the west.