dœglingn.
/ˈdəʊɡlɪŋ/ The bottle-nosed whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus, which yields dœgling train oil.
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1866 H. Watts tr. L. Gmelin Hand-bk. Chem. XVII. 180 Doegling Train Oil. From the doegling (the Balæna rostrata of Chemnitz, Hyperodon of later zoologists), a kind of dolphin.
1890 H. E. Roscoe & C. Schorlemmer Treat. Chem. (new ed.) III. ii. 483 The glyceride of this acid forms, according to Scharling, the principal part of the dœgling train oil.
1947 Antiquity 21 87 The Bottle-nosed Whale or Dogling.
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