whaleman

The lily-iron is, in principle, exactly what a whaleman would describe by the word “toggle.”

Sam Baker, being an old whaleman, darted his harpoon cleverly, and held fast the struggling animal.

My other assailant I hurled into a heap of ashes, and the way he blubbered was a caution to a Nantucket whaleman.

M'Gary, an old-whaleman, familiar from early manhood with the hardships of Arctic voyaging, wept at the sight.

A New Bedford boy might tell us, and very correctly, that the woodpecker harpoons his grub, just as a whaleman harpoons a whale.