Definition of "whale-fisher" [whale-fisher]

• A person engaged in the whale-fishery; a whaler. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The most extensive source of danger to the whale-fisher, when actively engaged in his occupation, arises from the object of his pursuit."
• "When the animal found that he was locked in by shallows on all sides, and became sensible, at the same time, of the strain of the cable on his body, the convulsive efforts which he made to escape, accompanied with sounds resembling deep and loud groans, would have moved the compassion of all but a practised whale-fisher."
• "Therefore, it is the more pleasant to me to be able to chronicle some of the doings of Captain Gilroy, familiarly known as "Paddy," the master of the CHANCE, who was unsurpassed as a whale-fisher or a seaman by any"