| 单词 | lob-tailing |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslob-tailing lob-tailing n. and adj. (see quots.). ΚΠ 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxxvi Five great motions are peculiar to it [sc. the tail of a whale]... Fourth, in lobtailing. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Lob-tailing, the act of the sperm whale in violently beating the water with its tail. 1899 F. T. Bullen Idylls of Sea xii. 75 It sounded..as if an extra large whale were ‘lob-tailing’—i.e. poised in the water head downwards, and striking deliberate blows upon its surface with his mighty flukes. 1937 Discovery Oct. 310/1 In ‘lobtailing’, it [sc. the cachalot] stands on its head with its tail some thirty feet out of the sea. < as lemmas |
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