whale-path
English edit
Etymology edit
From whale + path, after Old English hranrād.
Noun edit
- (poetic) The sea(s), the ocean(s).
- 1885, James Frederick Hodgetts, The champion of Odin; or, Viking Life in the Days of Old, page 134:
- At last a ship, called by the English a "long-ship," was put at their disposal, and the men rowed away on the whale-path back to the north.
- 1902, The Seafarer, Cook and Tinker's translation:
- Over the whale-path, over the tracts of the sea.
- 1989, Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned, page 108:
- The whale speeding along on the whale path, as Beowulf called it.