harpoon
English
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French harpon, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin harpaga, a rare variant of Latin harpagō, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἁρπάγη (harpágē, “hook”), from ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to snatch away, to carry off, to seize, to captivate”). Sense and spelling perhaps influenced by (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch harpoen (“harpoon”).
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -uːn
- Hyphenation: har‧poon
Noun
harpoon (plural harpoons)
Derived terms
Translations
spearlike weapon
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Verb
harpoon (third-person singular simple present harpoons, present participle harpooning, simple past and past participle harpooned)
- (transitive) To shoot something with a harpoon.
- 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 176:
- Pilot whales, also known as blackfish, were fairly plentiful, and Mundus would harpoon one or two, haul them out onto the beach, and butcher them.
Derived terms
Translations
to hunt with a harpoon
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See also
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