sealing ground(s)

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a place where seal hunting is carried on.

Quotations

1921

Our nine dogs . . . displayed a fierce eagerness to reach the sealing grounds. . . .

1964

. . . they [the Eskimo] deserted their expendable villages and moved to other sealing-grounds.