[f. WHALE-FISHING: see -ER1.] = WHALER 1. So Whalefisherman = WHALER 1 and 2; Whale-fishery, (a) the occupation or industry of whale-fishing; (b) a locality where whale-fishing is carried on or where whales abound.
1773. Berridge, Chr. World Unmasked (1805), 43. In Greenland among the *whale-fishers.
1820. Scoresby, Acc. Arctic Reg., I. 271. The salt in the sea … destroys the tenacity of the bay-ice,… and, in the language of the whale-fisher, completely rots it.
1874. A. H. Markham, Whaling Cruise, i. 1. Hither [sc. to the Arctic Regions] our brave whale-fishers have annually ventured for many years.
1724. Phil. Trans., XXXIII. 193. Our *Whale Fishermen of Nantucket.
1820. Scoresby, Acc. Arctic Reg., II. 74. Foreign Protestants also, who had served three years on board of any British whale-fishermen.
1704. Phil. Trans., XXIV. 1723. When our Ships return’d from the *Whale-Fishery.
1752. J. Hill, Hist. Anim., 555. About Greenland, and in other places where there are whale-fisheries.
1820. Scoresby, Acc. Arctic Reg., II. 76. The British whale-fishery of 1758 was very unsuccessful.
1874. A. H. Markham, Whaling Cruise, i. 8. The ships engaged in the whale fishery are all most substantially built.
