HARPOON
\hɑːpˈuːn], \hɑːpˈuːn], \h_ɑː_p_ˈuː_n]\
Definitions of HARPOON
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
Sort: Oldest first
-
a spear with a shaft and barbed point for throwing; used for catching large fish or whales; a strong line is attached to it
By Princeton University
-
a spear with a shaft and barbed point for throwing; used for catching large fish or whales; a strong line is attached to it
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
-
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, fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun.
-
To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon.
By Oddity Software
-
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, fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun.
-
To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
-
To strike with a harpoon.
-
A barbed missile weapon, carrying a long cord for striking whales or the like.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
-
A small, sharp-pointed instrument with a barbed head used for extracting bits of muscular and other tissue for microscopical examination.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
-
n. [French, Greek] A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales, consisting of a long shank with a flat triangular barbed iron point for piercing the fish, and a long line to play it. it is usually thrown by the hand, but sometimes it is discharged from a species of gun—gun-harpoon.
