whale-path

noun

The sea(s), the ocean(s).

OriginOld English hranrād →
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Meanings

noun
  1. poeticThe sea(s), the ocean(s).

    Over the whale-path, over the tracts of the sea.

    1902, The Seafarer, Cook and Tinker's translation
    2 more examples

    At last a ship, called by the English a "long-ship," was put at their disposal, and the men rowed away on the whale-path back to the north.

    1885, James Frederick Hodgetts, The champion of Odin; or, Viking Life in the Days of Old, page 134

    The whale speeding along on the whale path, as Beowulf called it.

    1989, Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned, page 108

Origin

  1. Old Englishhranrād
  2. Englishwhale-path

From whale + path, after Old English hranrād.

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