Definition of "harpooner" [har•poon•er]

• A person who uses a harpoon, especially to hunt whales (noun)

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• "I knew again only that I was very thirsty, and before my swimming eyes, in mid-air and close up, dangled the sanded tongue of the harpooner."
• "There was a giant harpooner in the circle, whose singing was like the bellowing of bulls; and, gazing on him in amazement while he roared some song of the sea, when next I looked across the circle to Anapuni, Anapuni was gone."
• "Scotty and the harpooner and with the oyster pirates -- because it was an act that men performed with whom I wanted to behave as a man."