whaling gun

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   a gun (or device resembling a gun) for discharging a projectile (especially a harpoon) at a whale

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Questions about whaling gun

What does whaling gun mean?

whaling gun means "a gun (or device resembling a gun) for discharging a projectile (especially a harpoon) at a whale".

Is whaling gun a common word?

whaling gun is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.