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Meanings of whalebone in anglès
Synonyms
Examples for "baleen"
Examples for "baleen"
1
There was just time to run to the rescue of the baleen whales.
2
His baleen was yellowed and corrupt, honeycombed like a Chinese puzzle.
3
He has enormous teeth or tushes in the lower jaw, but has no baleen.
4
Whalebone whips are made from single pieces of baleen seven or eight feet long.
5
It's made of the baleen, mixed with sintered yak wool.
Usage of whalebone in anglès
1
The whalebone Divinity in the Home Town passed out of his Life.
2
The stretchers were of cane, and the ribs of cane or whalebone.
3
This produces an elastic fiber intermediate in stiffness between twine and whalebone.
4
So I made her a tail of whalebone and India-rubber and yarn.
5
She handed Little a good-sized affair of lace and silk and whalebone.
6
The irksomeness was added to by a horrible harness largely of whalebone.
7
The thought of De Malfort's ridicule cut her like a whalebone whip.
8
Many girls chose abortion, a hazardous internal stabbing with a whalebone speculum.
9
How could Patty come here, and dressed in silk and whalebone too?
10
The quality of the whalebone also differs in the different species.
11
Those with whalebone have rudimentary teeth in both jaws in the fœtal state.
12
Name's Mervin; all whipcord and whalebone; springy as a bent bow.
13
In like manner the devil fish feeds, except that it has no whalebone.
14
The longer Richard contemplated Inspector Val the more he felt his whalebone sort.
15
In the south, too, hoop iron or whalebone is used for runner shoeing.
16
No whalebone on Miss Tomson but perhaps a lot on Matilda.
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United Kingdom
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