nordcaper

plural nordcapers

1. alternativeAlternative form of Nordcaper.

   The only baleen whales available which Chaplain could have had any chance of holding were the slow-swimming nordcapers and these were scarce in Irish waters.

   1992, Lochlann McGill, In Conall's Footsteps, page 352

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   As the Greenland whale, or bowhead, was unknown to the European naturalists of Rondelet's time, it may be presumed that the species he had in mind was the black whale or nordcaper.

   1886, Frederick William True, Collected Reprints

   A nordcaper would yield 700 to 800 kg. or even more, and in addition it was generally very fat, one particular specimen in Bunaveneader producing 120 barrels of oil.

   1982, Johan Nicolay Tønnessen, Arne Odd Johnsen, The History of Modern Whaling, page 93

   IWS II (1931 p. 7) tabulates catches from 1890 to 1909 and, referring to unspecified catches in those years, notes that 'Sperm-whales and nordcapers were only present in very scanty numbers'.

   1986, Robert L. Brownell, P. B. Best, John H. Prescott, Right Whales: Past and Present Status

plural Nordcapers · alternative nordcaper · alternative north-caper

1. A type of baleen whale from the North Atlantic (Balaena mysticetus or Balaena biscayensis).

   It may be mentioned that thus it was evidently not merely by chance that a Nordcaper was caught near the Faroes the same year.

   1935, Ragnar Spärck, Søren Ludvig Tuxen, The Zoology of the Faroes: Vermes, Tardigrada

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   Besides the “Nordcapers,” the voyagers one day fell in with another species of dolphin, three or four of which gambolled under the Germania's bows.

   1880, William Henry Davenport Adams, Recent Polar Voyages

   Taking all our 69 Nordcapers together, the average girth, according to the measurements given, is just about 63 per cent. of the length of the fish ; that is to say, a whale of average size, say 474 feet long, would have a girth of 30 feet.

   1926, Fishery Board for Scotland, Fishery Board for Scotland Scientific Investigations, page 8

   he repeated that he received the material from a whaler who had collected it from a ”Nordcaper” between Iceland and Newfoundland.

   1998, Dale R. Calder, Willem Vervoort, Some Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, in the North Atlantic Ocean, page 356