Harpoon

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  • noun. A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish.
  • transitive verb. To strike, kill, or capture with or as if with a spearlike weapon.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon.
  • noun. A missile weapon used in capturing whales and large fish, and either thrown by hand or fired from a gun. See harpoon-gun.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, flat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun.
  • noun. a kind of hayfork, consisting of a bar with hinged barbs at one end and a loop for a rope at the other end, used for lifting hay from the load by horse power.
  • noun. a gun used in the whale fishery for shooting the harpoon into a whale.
  • transitive verb. To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish.
  • noun. A harmonica.
  • verb. To hunt something with a harpoon.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. spear with a harpoon
  • noun. a spear with a shaft and barbed point for throwing; used for catching large fish or whales; a strong line is attached to it
    • Word Usage
    "For the Inuits, anything with more range than a spear or harpoon is a quantuum leap."
    Form
    harpooned  harpooning  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    catch  fishgig  fizgig  gig  grab  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bethune  Boone  Calhoun  June  Karun  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    battle-axe  crossbow  javelin  pike  scalping-knife  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bag  catch  enmesh  ensnare  entangle  
    verb-form
    harpooned  harpooning  harpoons  
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