How to pronounce“whale”in English
Town called Hudson, on the Hudson River. It was actually---are you interested in why it was founded? >> Yes.
It was founded by whalers who originally whaled in Nantucket. But they decided to move their families up the Hudson River to another place that would still be on the water.
Why did they want to move their families away from Nantucket?
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Definitions of “whale”
Any large cetacean, usually with the exclusion of dolphins and porpoises.
“Near-synonym: baleen (obsolete sense)”
Any species of Cetacea, including dolphins and porpoises.
“The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.”
To hunt for whales.
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