whaling

Meaning of whaling

noun
  1. the practice or industry of hunting and killing whales for their oil, meat, or whalebone.
    a ban on whaling
    the whaling industry
    whaling nations
verb, gerund or present participle
  1. beat; hit.
    Dad came upstairs and whaled me
    they whaled at the water with their paddles

late 18th century: variant of wale.

Information about whaling

  • The plural form of whaling is: whalings.
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Hyphenation of whaling

whal-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • whaling is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of whaling

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