Meanings
- obsoleteA type of small fish thought to accompany the whale.
This tiny Creature is the Whale's Guide, and therefore protected by him, while all the finny Race besides are his Prey.
1730, Matthew Concanen, The Speculatist, page 2671 more example
it is in shape like a Gudgeon, and both the Latines and we, call it the Whales-guide; for, she doth ever follow him, suffering her selfe, as easily to be led and turned by him, as a ship is directed and turned by a sterne[…].
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
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