Crossword-Solution: CACHALOT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cachalot | n. | The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
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greedy person
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Sentences with CACHALOT (5)
Skill, coolness, audacity, and cunning he possessed in a superior degree, and it must be a cunning whale or a singularly “cute” cachalot to escape the stroke of his harpoon.
These creatures are only balaeaopterons, provided with dorsal fins; and, like the cachalots, are generally much smaller than the Greenland whale.” “Ah!” exclaimed the Canadian, whose eyes had never left the ocean, “they are coming nearer; they are in the same water as the _Nautilus_.” Then, returning to the conversation, he said: “You spoke of the cachalot as a small creature.
They are nothing but mouth and teeth.” Mouth and teeth! No one could better describe the macrocephalous cachalot, which is sometimes more than seventy-five feet long.
One cachalot killed, it ran at the next, tacked on the spot that it might not miss its prey, going forwards and backwards, answering to its helm, plunging when the cetacean dived into the deep waters, coming up with it when it returned to the surface, striking it front or sideways, cutting or tearing in all directions and at any pace, piercing it with its terrible spur.
The male cachalot has a larger head than that of the female, and it no doubt aids him in his aquatic battles.