"whaleship" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From whale + ship.",
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      "form": "whaleships",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Whaling",
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          "ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:",
          "text": "For many years past the whaleship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth. She has explored seas and archipelagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed.",
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        "A ship used for hunting whales."
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  "word": "whaleship"
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