parmacetty

English edit

parmacetty (plural parmacetties)

Obsolete spelling of parmacety
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 15”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
  Lost by a whale! Young man, come nearer to me: it was devoured, chewed up, crunched by the monstrousest parmacetty that ever chipped a boat!