DCHP-1 Online
sealing 
n. the hunting of seals.
See also: ice-hunting
- 1777 (1792) It is rather too shoal for sealing, yet I must try it, since there is not better hereabouts.
- 1951 And when I've said Mass, I go sealing if the wind is east and the ice is moving, or hunting Arctic hares, if the wind is in the west.
- 1777 (1792) It is rather too shoal for sealing, yet I must try it, since there is not better hereabouts.