DCHP-1 Online
white whale 
the beluga, Delphinapterus leucas, of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.
See also: porpoise
- 1688 (1932) That Churchill River Bee Settled this yeare with a Good Shipp a Competent Cargo for Trade and Materials for White Whale ffishings.
- 1784 The fishery of the Beluga, or White Whale, is attended with more success.
- 1826 They had a wide prospect of salt water free from ice, and abounding in seals and white whale.
- 1964 Even Churchill came within their [Eskimos'] summer range; right down to the end of the seventeenth century they journeyed there to hunt the white whales off its river mouth. . . .
- 1688 (1932) That Churchill River Bee Settled this yeare with a Good Shipp a Competent Cargo for Trade and Materials for White Whale ffishings.