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• kä'ing-hw[=a]l, n. one of the Cetacea, in the dolphin family, very gregarious, and oftener stranded than any other 'whale'--16 to 24 feet long, and 10 feet in girth. Other names are Pilot-whale, Black-fish, Social Whale, Grindhval. [Scot. ca, to drive.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson