Word Meanings - DEDUCTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The pilot whale or blackfish.

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• PILOT VALVE
  A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand.
• PILOTAGE
  1. The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. The compensation made or allowed to a pilot. 3. Guidance, as by a pilot. Sir W. Scott.
• WHALE
  Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone. Note: The existing whales are divided into two
• WHALEMAN
  A man employed in the whale fishery.
• WHALER
  A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.
• WHALEBOAT
  A long, narrow boat, sharp at both ends, used by whalemen.
• WHALEBACK
  A form of vessel, often with steam power, having sharp ends and a very convex upper deck, much used on the Great Lakes, esp. for carrying grain.
• PILOT FLAG
  The flag hoisted at the fore by a vessel desiring a pilot, in the United States the union jack, in Great Britain the British union jack with a white border.
• PILOT BALLOON
  A small, unmanned balloon sent up to indicate the direction of air currents.
• PILOTISM; PILOTRY
  Pilotage; skill in the duties of a pilot.
• PILOT LAMP; PILOT LIGHT
  A small incandescent telltale lamp on a dynamo or battery circuit to show approximately by its brightness the voltage of the current.
• PILOT
  One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman. Dryden. 2. Specifically, a person duly qualified, and licensed by authority, to conduct vessels into and out of a port, or in certain waters, for a fixed rate of fees. 3. Figuratively:
• BLACKFISH
  A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.
• WHALEBONE
  A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen. Note: Whalebone is chiefly obtained from the bowhead,
• PILOT WHEEL
  A wheel, usually with radial handles projecting from the rim, for traversing the saddle of a machine tool, esp. an automatic machine tool, by hand.
• SPERM WHALE
  A very large toothed whale , having a head of enormous size. The upper jaw is destitute of teeth. In the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. This whale sometimes grows to the
• COW-PILOT
  A handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of Florida and the West Indies ; -- called also mojarra.
• ZOPILOTE
  The urubu, or American black vulture.
• SKY PILOT
  A person licensed as a pilot.
• RIGHT WHALE
  The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale , from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained. Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale , and the Pacific right whale ; a bone whale. Pygmy right whale
• BRANCH PILOT
  A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation.