? Obs. Also 7 whales-finne. Whalebone, formerly supposed to be the fin of the whale.
1612. Sc. Bk. Rates, in Halyburton’s Ledger (1867), 332. Whale fin the fin, xl s.
1614. Purchas, Pilgrimage, IV. xvii. (ed. 2), 433. The Inhabitantes holde trade with other Samoeds … for … Beauers, Downe, Whales-Finnes.
1741. Daily Post, 11 April, 1/3. On Tuesday was imported … from Holland 9 C. Whale-fins.
1809. Kendall, Trav., II. lii. 207. By whale-fin has always been meant the barb, from which the whale-bone is really obtained.
1820. Scoresby, Acc. Arctic Reg., II. 415. Whale-bone, or whale-fins, as the substance is sometimes, though incorrectly named.
