DCHP-3

talk (to) seal

North
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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stalk a seal by creeping up on it while making seal-like noises.

Quotations

1865
The bear lies down and crawls by hitches toward the seal, "talking" to it, as the Inuits say, till he is within striking distance, then he pounces upon it with a single jump.
1897
The seal takes the Eskimo, who is able to talk seal perfectly, to be one of its kinsmen; and indeed there is a great deal of resemblance between the genera, for both are similarly clothed, and the Eskimo's living largely upon the flesh and oil of the seal, is similarly odorous.