| Whaling 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whala. 2. (n.) The hunting of whales. 3. (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales; as, a whaling voyage; a whaling vessel. Thesaurus Entries angling, banging, bumping, casting, colossal, dressing-down, enormous, fishery, fishing, fly fishing, gargantuan, gigantic, guddling, harpooning, hiding, immense, jigging, larruping, lathering, leathering, licking, mighty, paddling, piscation, prodigious, rod and reel, slapping, spanking, still-fishing, tanning, thumping, thundering, trawling, trolling, walloping, whacking, whopping |