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harpoon
noun as in spear
noun as in weapon
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Example Sentences
Additionally, obsessives can view Quint’s harpoon gun and original design specifications for the mechanical sharks built to terrorize Martha’s Vineyard in 1974.
They got their name because they were the “right” whales to harpoon — their bodies floated for easy recovery after they were killed.
But “the whale who spouts gets harpooned,” Phillips later noted after the “Democratic machine” set out to quash his chances.
Not believing him, the salesman behind the counter becomes the sole fatality in a freak harpoon gun accident that’s much more disgusting than I’m giving it credit for.
Their evidence included finding stone harpoon points that hadn’t been used since the mid-1800s embedded in the blubber of whales recently killed by traditional whalers.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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