[f. prec.] intr. To engage in whale-fishing; see also WHALING vbl. sb.1
c. 1700. in Cheever’s Whalem. Adv., i. (1850), 5. [To] whale out in the deep for sperm whales.
1812. Sydney Gaz., in O’Hara’s Hist. N. S. Wales (1817), 386. The brig Active … was at Frederick Henry Bay whaling.
