porpoise

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This was the voyage on which the Uncas was stopped by Thomas Craven and the Porpoise under suspicion of engaging in the slave trade and returned to the United States.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2021

Then there are the moves: the Flamingo Twirl, the Porpoise Spin, the Swan, the Albatross, the Butterfly, the Heron and the Manta Ray.

From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2021

General Porpoise does doughnuts and caffeine — nothing more, nothing less — and they do it really, really well.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2021

Darius boards a yacht, the Porpoise, named for a creature that belongs fully to neither land nor sea.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 13, 2019

If you've all knowledge in your head, I truly cannot see Why you should ask a Porpoise, who Is ignorant and plain, What in this instance you should do To get back home again?

From Harper's Round Table, April 30, 1895 by Various