Bullen, in his Cruise of the Cachalot and other writings, has graphically described contests which came under his own observation between the cachalot and its prey.
These huge cuttle-fishes as well as those of various other oceanic species form the food of the cachalotor sperm whale, and F.
The mystery was explained; for, as the great beast emerged yet further from the water, I recognized, from its enormous size and great length of head, the cachalot whale.
Having in our turn described to him our adventure with the cachalot whale, I asked him if he knew of a suitable spot for the anchorage of the yacht.
The cachalot or sperm-whale is one of the largest cetaceans, often attaining a length of more than 80 ft.
It was either sink the cachalot or run the risk of being stove in," said Matt.
Matt, looking behind, could see the huge cachalot leaping clear out of the water, and falling into it again with a splash like some mountain dropping into the sea.
Why," went on Dick, excitedly, "a cachalot is one of the hardest fighters in the whole whale family.
Matt, watching the cachalot with sharp eyes, awaited the right moment for letting the Whitehead go.
But possibly you are ignorant of the fact that a bull cachalot has been known to attack and sink a full-rigged ship?
If the Grampus had not had her fight with the cachalot she would not have put in at Port-of-Spain, and if Ensign Glennie had not lost his dispatches he would not have put in there, either.
A spouting of reddened water gave Matt the location, and he put the Grampus about, so as to face the danger and bring the cachalot in front of the port torpedo tube.
The ferocity of the Cachalot has been denied and affirmed.
It is found floating in the ocean, and is recognised as coming from the cachalot owing to its being largely made up of the horny beaks of cuttle-fish, upon which the cachalot feeds.
The Cachalot has horrible jaws, and no fewer than forty-eight enormous teeth; he could with ease devour all; both boat and man.
The fiercest species of the Cachalot is the Ourque or Physetene of the ancients, which is so much dreaded by the Icelanders, that when they are on the sea they will not so much as name him lest he should come and attack them.
In the great intermediate region, the fierce Cachalot inclines towards the South, devastating the warm waters.
So great is the vitality of the cachalot that it not infrequently breaks away from its pursuers, and with two or three harpoon-heads in its body lives to a ripe, if not a placid, old age.
When between the Cosmoledos and Astove, the next island to the northward, we sighted a "solitary" cachalot one morning just as the day dawned.
There was a little obliquity about the direction of the spout that made me hopeful, for the cachalot alone sends his spout diagonally upward, all the others spout vertically.
He averred that in all his experience he had never seen a cow-cachalot anywhere around Stewart's Island, although, as usual, he did no theorizing as to the reason why.
The exhibition of endurance we had just been favoured with was a very unusual one, I was told, it being a rare thing for a cachalot to take out two boats' lines before returning to the surface to spout.
With all his supple smartness, he had none of the dogged savagery of the cachalot about him, nor did we feel any occasion to beware of his rushes, rather courting them, so as to finish the game as quickly as possible.
Never, as far as I have been able to ascertain, has a cachalot attacked a man swimming or clinging to a piece of wreckage, although such opportunities occur innumerably.
About three tons of oil are commonly obtained from a large cachalot of this species, and from one to two tons from a small one, besides the head-matter.
The number of American vessels now employed in pursuit of the spermaceti cachalotand the mystecetus, amounts to about four hundred, and the number of men to about ten thousand.
Bits of the bones of the gigantic squid on which the cachalot feeds.
The smaller kinds of cetaceans, of which the variety is immense, are in the main fish-eaters, but the killer seizes and devours porpoises and seals also, and a band of them may unite to worry a big cachalot to death.
The cachalot attacks the giant squid whenever it meets one and the marks of the squid's winding arms and cruel suckers are often seen on the hides of whales as scars of some struggle between these Titans of the deep.
The Bowhead is hunted for his "whalebone"; the Cachalot or true Sperm, the lord of the toothed whales, for that great lake of sperm oil and spermaceti which he carries round in a portable tank in the top of his head.
The male cachalot has a larger head than that of the female, and it no doubt aids him in his aquatic battles.
But it may, perhaps, be significant that a cachalot was stranded off Sark on June 3.
It chanced that a cachalot was killed off Terceira by some sperm whalers, and in its last struggles charged almost to the Prince's yacht, missed it, rolled under, and died within twenty yards of his rudder.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cachalot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
