| whale | | |
| n. (person) | 1. giant, heavyweight, hulk, whale | a very large person; impressive in size or qualities. |
| ~ large person | a person of greater than average size. |
| n. (animal) | 2. whale | any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head. |
| ~ cetacean, cetacean mammal, blower | large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals. |
| ~ baleen whale, whalebone whale | whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water. |
| ~ toothed whale | any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.. |
| ~ monodon monoceros, narwal, narwhal, narwhale | small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk. |
| ~ spouter | a spouting whale. |
| v. (competition) | 3. whale | hunt for whales. |
| ~ hunt, hunt down, track down, run | pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals).; "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" |
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