Defn: A whaleback steamer with a hatch coaming, usually about seven feet high, extending almost continuously fore and aft.
Defn: A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almost continuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides.
Maybe the mate on the whaleback would invite us to lunch.
There were reasons why a certain article descriptive of a great whaleback steamer taking on grain for famine-stricken India should be written that day, and Rivers wanted his afternoon free in order to go to Laurie Flagg's coming-out tea.
Condy explained his mission with flattering allusions to the whaleback and the novelty of the construction.
And I'll make a bang-up article out of the whaleback herself," declared Condy.
There in the cabin of that curious nondescriptwhaleback they had come suddenly to the edge of a romance--a romance that had been lived through before they were born.
His editor promptly asked for the whaleback stuff, and Condy was forced into promising it within a half-hour.
As Travis and Condy were going down the gangplank they met the captain of the whaleback coming up.
The course was from the dock to Whaleback Island, around the Island and back to the starting point.
As the pull toward Whaleback was downstream both crews made magnificent speed with apparently little effort.
Two young scamps that belong to a school that's gone on Whaleback to camp.
No, and that's just what I was wishing you onWhaleback for, so you could tell him.
The Germans could not afford to lose any great depth of ground or their main positions defending the crest of the whaleback would be in danger.
With ample artillery and fresh reserves at our command we were determined to gain the summit of the whaleback in a final drive.
Thus our 3d Corps, swinging toward the whaleback, was literally in a trough of fire from the heights of the whaleback in front and in flank and from the heights across the Meuse in flank.
Marshal Foch chose to put us in the very hinge of the whole movement and he set for our objective in a swift series of advances nothing less than the heights of Buzancy--the heights of the whaleback itself.
The gale increased, and blackened the harbor and whitened the open sea beyond, where sail after sail appeared round the reef of Whaleback Light, and ran in a wild scamper for the safe anchorages within.
But there is a constant procession of steamers, and whaleback grain barges going in both directions, day and night, all during some seven months of the year.
Frequently during the night the hoarse whistle of some big steamer, or a tug towing whaleback barges, would sound close at hand, awakening those who were not accustomed to this bustling nature of things.
The whaleback is the business part of the city, although the shopping district has now a tendency to spread more eastward.
Beyond them lay a filmy blue whaleback of an island which he was told was Sark, and it was to Sark he was bound.
The whaleback varies from a somewhat clumsy looking craft, resembling in appearance very much the back of a whale, to the much more attractive and navigable craft shown in the illustration.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whaleback" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
