Definitions for whaleback

whaleback whale·back

Spelling: [hweyl-bak, weyl-]
IPA: /ˈʰweɪlˌbæk, ˈweɪl-/

Whaleback is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 259 anagrams from letters in whaleback (aabcehklw).

Definitions for whaleback

noun

  1. Nautical. a cargo vessel having a hull with a convex deck. a deck or cover curving upward.
  2. something shaped like the back of a whale, as a rounded hill or an ocean wave.

Origin of whaleback

First recorded in 1885-90; whale1 + back1

Examples for whaleback

With ample artillery and fresh reserves at our command we were determined to gain the summit of the whaleback in a final drive.

He was a famous 'whaleback'--I think that's what they call it--on the Yale football team.

An artistic illustration is given of the "whaleback" steamer, used principally on our Northern lakes.

I can't make out what they are on; but it looks like a whaleback to me, with her upper works carried away.

He went by the Suburban, because he wanted to go over to the avenues, and Cowles went down by the whaleback.'

The whaleback is the business part of the city, although the shopping district has now a tendency to spread more eastward.

In the centre it rose to probably six feet and then fell very gradually, whaleback fashion, to the south.

Word Value for whaleback
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Words with friends

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