The death-struggle of a whale.
1823. He’s going into his flurry.—J. F. Cooper, ‘Pilot,’ chap. xvii. (N.E.D.)
1849. Mr. Giddings said it was stated by whalers that when a death-blow was given to those leviathans,… they became dangerous…. These expiring convulsions were called the flurries.—House of Repr., Dec. 27: Cong. Globe, p. 83.
