Citations:walruser

English citations of walruser

Noun: "one who hunts walruses" edit

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  • 1911, J. D. Rogers, A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Volume V—Part IV, Newfoundland, Clarendon Press (1911), page 146:
    The only hindrance to those pleasant relations arose from certain New Englanders, who followed in the wake of the traders, made mischief with the natives, and in the Nineties became great whalers and walrusers, concentrating their main destructive efforts on the whales of Fortune Bay in the south of Newfoundland, and on the walruses of the neighbouring Magdalen Islands, where however there were no aborigines.
  • 1998 July 15, J.E.D., “Re: INTUIT SAVAGES TO BEGIN KILLING WHALES”, in alt.native[1] (Usenet):
    First, there are no Inuits in Alaska. So I assume we're talking Canada here. There are Inupiats in the north (the whalers) and Yu'piks mostly in the west going south (the walrusers).

Noun: ? edit

  • 1988: Heide Ziegler (editor), Facing Texts: Encounters Between Contemporary Writers and Critics, page 109 (Duke University Press; →ISBN
    The Great Walrus, said Mariana beside him, her eyes still closed, is on the loose, grumping all rivals away from his rocks. His walruser is reared up like a gander trying to see over the hedge, but first we must say our prayers.