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head skin n. Whaling the thick tough skin covering the head of a whale.
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1874 C. M. Scammon Marine Mammals N. Amer. i. viii. 75 This [whale's nostril], with the ‘case’, is protected by a thick, tough, elastic substance called the ‘head-skin’, which is proof against the harpoon.
1903 C. H. Stevenson Utilization Skins Aquatic Animals 191 The oil-yielding portions of the humpback are the body blubber; head skin; lips, which are small; tongue; entrail fat, [etc.]
1980 W. N. Bonner Whales 84 We suppose that, as the whale descends, its spermaceti is cooled by vaso-dilation of the head skin.
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