harpoon
Example Sentences
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Some of his videos highlight antique traps, like a 19th-century wooden trap that is shaped like a rat and shoots harpoons from its eyes, or quicksand traps that suffocate rodents.
From New York Times
Dr. Hancock concurred, noting that it was really the intricacy of the behavior that astounded him: the elegance of the insects’ movement, the cold precision of their steely harpoon jaws.
From New York Times
For more than a century, humans hunted whales with ships and harpoons and sold their blubber, baleen and meat for substantial profits.
From Washington Post
Hunters already could use bows, crossbows, harpoons, spears and pneumatic air-guns firing an arrow.
From Washington Times
Around the same time, Norwegians invented the explosive harpoon, which killed whales more efficiently than hand-thrown versions, and the stern slipway, which allowed whale carcasses to be processed on board ships.
From Salon
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