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1653 Mercurius Democritus No. 77. 603 This Whale being pursued by the Orca, a little fish his deadly Enemy, running himself on the shallows betwixt High-gate & Hornsey, and sticking fast; was so killed.

1726 Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 265 He has a Fin, near the Middle of his Back... This Killer is without doubt the Orca.

1786 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 76 523 Not the bones of crocodiles as at first supposed... Supposed to belong to a..Breathing-fish, Delphinus or Orca.

1844 A. Barnes Notes Bk. of Job II. 279/2 Not the whale is intended, but the Orca, a sea-monster armed with teeth.

1866 tr. D. F. Eschricht in W. H. Flower Recent Mem. Cetacea ii. 172 The teeth of the Orcas are of quite a different kind from those of the cachalots.

1906 Windsor Mag. Sept. 469/2 A school of killers or orcas had quietly come up.

1922 Science 12 May 507/1 From the diminutive porpoise to the huge sulphurbottom all are taken but the orca, and it is left entirely alone.

1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 July 26/1 I was called out on deck by excited voices to gaze on a pod of orcas, or killer whales, that flanked and followed our boat as if in escort.

1993 J. Strohmeyer Extreme Conditions vi. 76 They pursued orca whales in the sea.

2001 Canad. Geographic July 32/1 The glossy black fins of four orcas simultaneously explode into view.