Meaning

1 senses
  1. (informal)Physically beating.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. They worked at a whaling station.

  2. Some countries have stopped whaling in the face of international criticism.

    deAngesichts der internationalen Kritik haben mehrere Länder aufgehört, Wale zu fangen. — xtofu80

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  3. Grytviken, on South Georgia, was a 19th and early 20th-century whaling station.

Forms

whalings, whalinging, whalinged, whalinged
Base formwhaling · to whaling
3rd person singularwhalings
Present participlewhalinging
Past simplewhalinged
Past participlewhalinged

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theywhaling
he, she, itwhalings

Past simpleLesson

all personswhalinged

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave whalinged
he, she, ithas whalinged

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill whaling

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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