[MAN sb.1 4 p, 14.]
1. = WHALER 1.
1716. B. Church, Hist. Philip’s War (1867), II. 133. And Whale-men then will be very serviceable in this Expedition, which having a promise made to them, that they shall be released in good season to go home a Whaling in the Fall.
1850. H. Melville, White Jacket, I. iv. 21. He launched out … into tremendous laudations of whalemen; declaring that whalemen alone deserved the name of sailors.
1898. F. T. Bullen, Cruise ‘Cachalot,’ xvi. 198. A smarter whaleman than Mistah Jones did not live.
2. = WHALER 2.
1767. M. Cutler, in Life, etc. (1888), I. 19. Whalemen fitted out for the Straits of Belle Isle, and Davis Straits.
1840. R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, vii. The ship was the Cortes, whaleman, of New Bedford.
1860. Merc. Marine Mag., VII. 254. There were two or three whalemen in port.
