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| Domain | Definition |
Transportation | A term applied to a weather deck forecastle or poop, which is rounded over at sides in order to shed the water rapidly in heavy weather. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Whaleback #118. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Unloading ore from whaleback, Buffalo. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., whaleback steamer in We[i]tzel Lock. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Whaleback" leaving Poe Lock, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
christopher columbus whaleback | 7 |
inn whaleback | 6 |
whaleback | 5 |
48 krogen whaleback | 3 |
alberta map whaleback | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "WHALEBACK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | hvalbak (turtle deck, turtleback). (various references) | ||||
Dutch | whaleback (turtle deck, turtleback). (various references) | ||||
French | pont en dos de tortue. (various references) | ||||
German | Walrueckendeck (turtle deck, turtleback), Schildkroetendeck (turtle deck, turtleback), Runddeck (turtle deck, turtleback). (various references) | ||||
Greek | πλοίο κητοειδέσ. (various references) | ||||
Italian | ponte arcuato a "dorso di balena". (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | alebackwhay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "WHALEBACK": whalebacks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-h-k-l-w" | |
-2 letters: bechalk. | |
-3 letters: bleach, hackle, keblah, kwacha. | |
-4 letters: aback, akela, alack, awake, beach, belch, black, bleak, cabal, cable, chalk, chela, hacek, leach, wacke, welch, whack, whale, wheal, whelk. | |
-5 letters: able, ache, alae, alba, alec, baal, bach, back, bake, bale, balk, bawl, beak, beck, blae, blah, blaw, blew, cake, calk, chaw, chew, claw, clew, each, hack. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-h-k-l-w" | |
+1 letter: whalebacks. | |
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