bronze whaler

English

Noun

bronze whaler (plural bronze whalers)

  1. The copper shark.
    • 1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 51:
      Below you, two bronze whalers, tiny with distance, begin to wind their way up to you as if on submarine updraughts, and you register them, in your slow glide to the surface, as hardly bigger than the bubbles in your trail.

Translations
copper shark — see copper shark
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