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white whale
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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the beluga, Delphinapterus leucas, of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.
See: porpoise
Quotations
1688
That Churchill River Bee Settled this yeare with a Good Shipp a Competent Cargo for Trade and Materials for White Whale ffishings.
1784
The fishery of the Beluga, or White Whale, is attended with more success.
1826
They had a wide prospect of salt water free from ice, and abounding in seals and white whale.
1964
Even Churchill came within their [Eskimos'] summer range; right down to the end of the seventeenth century they journeyed there to hunt the white whales off its river mouth. . . .