Nantucketer

plural Nantucketers

1. An inhabitant of Nantucket.

   There is a whale swimming right now who may have escaped a Nantucketer's harpoon in 1850 and a Japanese whale ship in 1950 who once heard the distant songs of 50,000 of her kind

   2024, Nate DiMeo, “Fifty Words Written About the Arctic Bowhead Whale After Learning That They Can Live up to Two Hundred Years”, in The Memory Palace

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   At the beginning of the twentieth century Nantucketers still divided the whole globe into on-island and off-island. […] But most of all, at the dawn of a new millennium, who is a Nantucketer and what constitutes Nantucket heritage have been transformed.

   2026 February 9 (last accessed), “Strangers, Coofs, and Washashores”, in Nantucket Historical Association, archived from the original on 27 May 2022, pages 1, 4