| Definitions | whaler
noun
- A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.
- 1863: w:Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, v. - But o' Thursday t' Resolution, first back this season, came in port.
- 1890: w:Century Illustrated Magazine, Century Illustrated Magazine, XL, 511 - For a whaler's wife to have been "'round the Cape" half a dozen times, or even more, was nothing extraordinary.
- (slang) One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size, a whopper, a whacker.
- (Australian English) name given in Sydney to the shark Carcharias brachyurus Gí¼nth.
- (Australian slang): a sundowner; one who cruises about.
- 1893: w:Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Morning Herald, Aug. 12, 1893 - the nomad, "the whaler," it is who will find the new order hostile to his vested interest of doing nothing.
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