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n. The business or practice of hunting, killing, and processing whales.

n. The practice of hunting whales.

n. The practice of spotting whales.

n. A beating.

v. Present participle of whale.

n. The hunting of whales.

adj. Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales

n. The act or business of taking whales; the pursuit of whales; whale-fishing: much used in compounds: as, a whaling-ship; a whaling-voyage; whaling- grounds; bay -whaling; shore-whaling.

Big, unusual, or extraordinary of its kind; strapping; whopping; whacking: as, a whaling lie.

""Several recent phishing attacks have been directed specifically at senior executives and other high profile targets within businesses, and the term whaling has been coined for these kinds of attacks.""

whaling company    mallemaroking   

whale   

ailing    assailing    bailing    baling    curtailing   

coasting    three-masted    coastwise    homeward-bound    clipper