Definition of "whale-ship" [whale-ship]

• A ship built for or employed in the business of whale-fishing; a whaling-ship or whaler. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The Nantucket whale-ship ESSEX, which was rammed by a sperm whale and later floundered."
• "Three weeks afterward the man lay in a bunk on the whale-ship"
• "There were some members of a scientific expedition on the whale-ship BEDFORD."