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Meanings of finback in English
Portuguese
baleia-comum 
Large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific.
Usage of finback in English
1
W'en I uz young 'n foolish, a finback range 'longside me one day, off de Seychelles.
2
For a long time our finback kept station with the boat, as if it were interested in us.
3
Gray finback whales flounder in schools.
4
From which lucid narration I gathered that the finback had himself to thank for his immunity from pursuit.
5
It is not very likely, but it is possible that this finback may carry us out to some distance.
6
Howick held himself in readiness to sheer off quickly in the event of the finback making a turn towards the boat.
7
The whales dived below, fortunately; for one blow of a finback or sulphur bottom would have played skittles with the canoes.
8
When a finback washes into The City with the turning highwater, a boy is discovered in the belly of the whale.
9
In fragments it fell back again into a sea that was lashed into fury by the angry flapping of the finback's fins.
10
The whalers had been obliged to fall back on the finback or jubarte, a gigantic mammifer, whose attacks are not without danger.
11
Lastly, there is the Jubarte, commonly known as the Finback.
12
Amazing creatures, the California grays, and now they're all gone, along with the blues, and finbacks, and humpbacks, and rights.
13
"Rather rough work, you know," said Dick, "to attack a finback!"
14
"Tis a finback!" exclaimed the lieutenant; "he will soon make headway, and be off."
15
'Twas a finback whale, M. Radisson explained; and he protested against the impudence of scratching its back on our keel.
16
W'en I uz young 'n foolish, a finback range 'longside me one day, off de Seychelles.
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