"whale-path" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From whale + path, after Old English hranrād. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|whale|path}} whale + path, {{der|en|ang|hranrād}} Old English hranrād Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} whale-path
  1. (poetic) The sea(s), the ocean(s). Tags: poetic
    Sense id: en-whale-path-en-noun-nvnFNriS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1885, James Frederick Hodgetts, The champion of Odin; or, Viking Life in the Days of Old, page 134",
          "text": "At last a ship, called by the English a \"long-ship,\" was put at their disposal, and the men rowed away on the whale-path back to the north.",
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          "ref": "1902, The Seafarer, Cook and Tinker's translation",
          "text": "Over the whale-path, over the tracts of the sea."
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          "ref": "1989, Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned, page 108",
          "text": "The whale speeding along on the whale path, as Beowulf called it.",
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