whalebone

How To Use whalebone In A Sentence

• It yields the article commonly known as whalebone or baleen; and the oil specially known as 'whale oil', an inferior article in commerce. Moby-Dick, or, The Whale
• Seafarers made household utensils, such as sewing tools, from whalebone, and today scrimshaw is as much associated with Nantucket as the lightship baskets unique to the island.
• The bow itself could be simply of wood or of a composite of horn or whalebone placed between two thin pieces of yew and covered in tendon, while steel bows appear from the 14th century.
• It yields the article commonly known as whalebone or baleen; and the oil specially known as "whale oil," an inferior article in commerce. Moby Dick, or, the whale
• Corsets fell out of style in the 1850s, but returned later in the 19th Century; made of canvas with steel or whalebone casings, they were designed to give women 13-inch waists.
• The ‘whalebone’ whales have hundreds of baleen plates, up to twelve feet long, hanging down from their upper jaw.
• The toughness, lightness, strength, and elasticity of whalebone gave it a wide variety of uses.
• She was one of those astonishing Victorian women who conquered mountains and crossed scorching deserts corseted in whalebone and steel, sporting smart designer tweeds and improbable hats.
• When we wear them we come out bruised and cut where the whalebone digs in.
• A good fisherman weaves his own nets with twine and a needle made of whalebone.